It's a shame that humans don't come with reset buttons. Richard Paul Evans More Quotes by Richard Paul Evans More Quotes From Richard Paul Evans such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour Richard Paul Evans fickle hours pain Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire. Richard Paul Evans mind reality commitment Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles. Richard Paul Evans forgiveness keys heart We can only lose what we have first claimed. Richard Paul Evans loses firsts ...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn. Richard Paul Evans nightmare dawn promise There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves. Richard Paul Evans who-we-are strange tests "You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because she no longer loves you back." "I don't know," I said. "On the surface, it seems an easy question. It should be so much easier to lose someone who doesn't love you, because why would you want to be with someone who doesn't want you? But rejection's not an east road. A part of you always wonders what makes you so unlovable." Richard Paul Evans rejection love-you love-is 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. Richard Paul Evans soul journey hurt . . . Harboring an emotion as powerful as gratitude has power of its own. Richard Paul Evans gratitude emotion powerful Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the moment before it escapes from our grasp. For the only promise of childhood, of any childhood, is that it will someday end. And in the end, we must ask ourselves what we have given our children to take its place. And is it enough? Richard Paul Evans parenting responsibility children It is in the darkest skies that stars are best seen. Richard Paul Evans stars sky Rarely do we invest the time to open the book of another's life. When we do, we are usually surprised to find its cover so misleading and its reviews so flawed. Richard Paul Evans reviews flawed book We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside Richard Paul Evans locks stronger building 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. Richard Paul Evans grateful glasses thinking Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare. Richard Paul Evans flare flames Joy isn't the natural response to blessings - joy is what comes from acknowledging them. Richard Paul Evans blessing natural joy Old friends are memories personified. Richard Paul Evans old-friends memories The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven. Richard Paul Evans reunion joy heaven Psychologists tested the story of the Good Samaritan. What they learned gives us reason to pause. The greatest determinant of who stopped to help the stranger in need was not compassion, morality, or religious creed. It was those who had the time. Makes me wonder if I have time to do good. Richard Paul Evans compassion religious giving Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli. Richard Paul Evans apology chocolate soul
