Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest.

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

I don't want to go to Peru." How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed.

Life is what happens to us while we're planning something else.