Richard Paul Evans Quotes
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
Quotes to Explore
-
The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
-
I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
-
And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.
-
The kids get a vote. That's very important when it comes to raising kids. And always keep the bigger picture in mind.
-
There's a world of difference between a strong ego, which is essential, and a large ego-which can be destructive.
-
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
-
We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.
-
Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
-
We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.
-
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
-
The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
-
Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.
-
Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.
-
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
-
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
-
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.
-
Jesus taught that the age he lived in was controlled by forces of evil but that God would soon intervene to destroy everything and everyone opposed to him. God would then bring in a good, utopian kingdom on earth, where there would be no more pain and suffering. Jesus himself would be the ruler of this kingdom, with his twelve disciples serving under him. And all this was to happen very soon—within his own generation. This
-
The three adults in the New Jersey case may all be excellent parents individually, but they should not have tried to create a family together, surely they knew at the outset that their ‘family’ had unequal support for one of the three adults and was inherently unstable as a result. Possibly their enthusiasm for raising a child caused them to overlook this fact, but it could not be overlooked for 18 years.
-
We fly, but we have not 'conquered' the air. Nature presides in all her dignity, permitting us the study and the use of such of her forces as we may understand. It is when we presume to intimacy, having been granted only tolerance, that the harsh stick fall across our impudent knuckles and we rub the pain, staring upward, startled by our ignorance.
-
My job is to explain stuff you don't know or already know and have to unlearn. My job is to teach you stuff you don't know that you need to know, stuff you should know. I'm going to take what you already know and re-describe it.
-
I say to my breath once again, little breath come from in front of me, go away behind me, row me quietly now, as far as you can, for I am an abyss that I am trying to cross.
-
I'm me on the mound. I like to show my emotion, be real aggressive and give everything I've got for one half inning. I don't have to act. What you see on the mound is what I am in real life.
-
Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.
