419 Quotes by Richard Paul Evans

I once read that love is like a rose: we fixate on the blossom, but it’s the thorny stem that keeps it alive and aloft. I think marriage is like that. Like my father said, the things of greatest value are the things we fight for. And in the end, if we do it right, we value the stem far more than the blossom.

In the end, and, if this is, indeed, my end, remember this: Christmas is the story of a Father reaching out to His children. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Some people deal with their problems by talking them to death. In fact, some enjoy the execution so much they resurrect their problems just so they can kill them again.-Nathan Hurst.

I’ve always believed that we don’t choose the life we want, we choose the life we think we deserve. We self-sabotage as a way to punish ourselves.” “Why would we punish ourselves? Doesn’t the world punish us enough?” “Why wouldn’t we? We live in a world that is always making us work for love. It’s cause and effect.

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.

One day McKenna got hot enough.

We chain ourselves to those we don’t forgive.

I have found that the most significant experiences of our lives rarely come when we’re expecting them and oftentimes when we’re not even paying attention.

Chocolate is God’s apology for brocolli.