Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights. And we are born to reach great heights

Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow. It is the single universal trait that the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended on it... for indeed it does.

As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness.

The first gift of Christmas was love. A parent's love. Pure as the first snows of Christmas. For God so loved His children that He sent His son, that someday we might return to Him.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes. That way he can't do anything to you because you're a mile away and you've got his shoes.

Home is where they don't want to kill you," Jack said.

I believe it's after the honeymoon ends that true love begins. It's in the hard times that the greater virtues of love reveal themselves, like tolerance and patience and kindness.

We can deny reality, but we can't deny the consequences of denying reality.

I don't know what is behind the curtain; only that I need to find out.

I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love.

Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing.