Quotes from Richard Paul Evans

My mother always said that if you do the right thing, the universe comes to your aid

It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

To truly live is more than taking the next breath---it's to hope and dream and love.

Holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

The thing is, we use past relationships like maps to navigate new ones. But it doesn't work that way, because every human, every relationship is different. It's like trying to use a map of Las Vegas to get around Vermont. It won't work. That's why so many people get lost.

Everybody needs love. Everybody. Those who don't believe that frighten me a little.

It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy.

But more than brave, you have love. And love is brave.

Soon I will sleep. What shall I dream of, my love? I will dream of you, of course. And I will dream for a place for us to be, a sanctuary where hearts will never break again. This is my dream, my heart. Never forget that there is no end to us, as there can be no end to love. Love must last forever, or why else would there be love? Until then, I will dream.

There is not only more to each soul's journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine.

We all have two stories---the journal of our life evnets, and the fiction we tell ourselves about them. Charles James's Diary

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