Richard Paul Evans Quotes

Sometimes people in search of a better fishing hole can't see the body of water in front of them.

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows.

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it.

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

People can be stunningly unobservant.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

People who listen to them properly don't underestimate them. Unfortunately, there's so much about my career and me that distracts people from the actual content of most of my songs.

I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

I realized it was like looking into the sun—you shouldn't do it, because you'd turn your face away and be blind to everything else.

If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

And in their rush to create wonders, they have ignored the wonders all around them, ignored the mysteries, the beauty.

Often miracles are happening right in front of our eyes, but we think they should look different, so we miss them though they're right there.

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

We are all more blind to what we have than to what we have not.

Guy Nearing told us it's a good idea when hunting mushrooms to have a pleasant goal, a waterfall for instance, and, having reached it, to return another way. When, however, we're obliged to go and come back by the same path, returning we notice mushrooms we hadn't noticed going out.

But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

We usually don't look. We overlook.

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it