Richard Paul Evans Quotes

The things that are ours cannot be given away, or taken away, or lost. We break our hearts, all of us, trying to keep things that do not belong to us — and to which we have no right.

This is going to be a hard task for you, first to attain and then to lose - because you can lose only something which you possess. If you don't possess it, how can you lose it?

Everything you gather is just one that you can lose.

If you let him go and he doesn't come back to you, he wasn't yours to begin with. It's a lesson learned in first grade

We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.

Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.

We only keep what we lose.

If I lose you, I lose everything

No man can lose what he never had.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it's yours forever. If it doesn't, then it was never yours to begin with.

What we share with another ceases to be our own.

So how can you lose what you've never owned?

If you keep hanging on to something, you've got an opportunity to keep getting hurt by it.

So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

Pain, loss and separation are inevitable on the path of love, and the only way of avoiding them is by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you have to renounce love.It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

It came to my house. It sat on my shoulders. Your shadow is yours. I told it so. I said it was yours. I have carried it with me too long. I give it back.

I don't mind parting with the corn, but not with the field in which it was raised.

Whatever's lost, it first was won.

It is better to lose than never to have had.