Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288

Only those who never step, never stumble.

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven't time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else's story, we come to understand our own.

You're the type who thinks of the glass as being half full, instead of half empty. "No," she said, "I'm just grateful for the glass.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour

To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.