Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evansis an American author, best known for writing The Christmas Box and, more recently, the Michael Vey series...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth11 October 1962
CountryUnited States of America
memories grateful thinking
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.
men thinking scarecrow
Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.
thinking gone curse
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.
thinking important
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.
thinking ants computer
When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
grateful thinking glasses
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.
book thinking people
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.
challenges succeed i-have-learned
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.
writing imagination active
I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.
home school kids
If you passed me walking home from school, you probably wouldn't even notice me. That's because I'm just a kid like you. I go to school like you. I get bullied like you. Unlike you, I live in Idaho. Don't ask me what state Idaho is in––news flash––Idaho IS a state. ~Michael Vey
school should-have may
Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.
mistake fate loss
We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288
long inspire enough
No,' he said, 'you only have to live long enough to inspire others to do great things.
remember ends loses
In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.