Richard Paul Evans Thinking Quotations

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.

When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

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.

There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.