419 Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

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

Magna est veritas, et praevalebit: truth is mighty, and will prevail

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.

I've yet to read a love story that compares with mine.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).

Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

It is often during the worst of times that we see the best of humanity–awakening within the most ordinary of us that which is most sublime. I do not believe that it is circumstance that produces such greatness any more than it is the canvas that makes the artist. Adversity merely presents the surface on which we render our souls’ most exacting likeness. It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.