Richard Paul Evans Quotes

I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.

The emptiness where I used pain to fill the hole no longer controls me, no longer calls me because of you.

Here’s a question every angry man and woman needs to consider: How long are you going to allow people you don’t even like — people who are no longer in your life, maybe even people who aren’t even alive anymore — to control your life? How long?

We give a lot of others significance in our lives even when they don't deserve it. It doesn't matter if they're family or if you've known them forever. If they're not good for you, they've got to go.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

I feel the only way I'm going to be successful in moving on is if I keep a separation.

Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

To be honest, I'm not that good at staying friends. I like to move on after a relationship ends. If I break up with somebody, I don't want to see her or hear from her.

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think we must have to be happy is the same as letting go of our unhappiness.

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

You don't have to give up to let go

See for yourself whether letting go when a part of you really wants to hold on doesn't bring a deeper satisfaction than clinging.

And I leave my post of observation and find I have had enough of this outside life; I feel that there is nothing more that I can learn here, either now or at any time. And I long to say a last goodbye to everything up here, to go down into my burrow never to return again, let things take their course, and not try to retard them with my profitless vigils.

All alike, you men. You only want the satisfaction of being through with us first, that's all. So far I've had the good fortune of beating you to it. So I am heartless.

Forgiveness is a CHOICE, not a feeling.

I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.

What do I want to let go of and what do I want to give myself to?

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!

All those men who end up disappointing you. After a while, you don't even want to have feelings anymore. You just want to get on with your life.

Sometimes you have to admit that a relationship can't be fixed. That no matter how much you want to, you can't trust some people.

Hating someone is giving them too much, just leave them alone.