Richard Paul Evans Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Dream, Procrastination, Weather

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Jan 04, 2012

• We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's the great, deep secret of humanity that in the end none of our lives look the way we thought they would. As much as we wish to believe otherwise, most of life is a reaction to circumstances.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Believe, Humanity, Secret

  Richard Paul Evans (2007). “The Sunflower”, p.269, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Stars, Believe, Adversity

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Aug 23, 2010

• Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Humanity, Different, Would Be

  Richard Paul Evans (2015). “Walking on Water: A Novel”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

• People are like books, unknown until they are opened.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, People, Humanity

  Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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