Nicholas Evans Quotes

• It's a lot like nuts and bolts - if the rider's nuts, the horse bolts!

  Nicholas Evans

  Horse, Cowboy, Nuts

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• Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far greater.

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  Truth, Pain, Heart

  Nicholas Evans (1996). “The Horse Whisperer”, Thorndike Pr

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• I am not gone but merely walk within you.

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  Gone, Walks, Within You

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• I guess that’s all forever is...Just one long trail of nows. And I guess all you can do is try and live one now at a time without getting too worked up about the last now or the next now.

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  Long, Forever, Trying

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• Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

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  Inspirational, Life, Handle

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• The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

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  Things In Life, Nudge Nudge, Giving

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• I absolutely think that happiness is a choice. One of the most potent forces in human psychology is the power of habit. Do something, think something, often enough and it will become the only thing you can do or think. Choose to be unhappy and soon that’s all you will be. Live in a swamp and you’ll grow webbed feet.

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  Thinking, Feet, Choices

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• No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire

  Nicholas Evans

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• He's not going to look back if you don't,' he said, 'They're the most forgiving creatures God ever made.

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  Horse, Forgiving, Looks

  Nicholas Evans (1996). “The Horse Whisperer”, Thorndike Pr

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• Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

  Nicholas Evans

  Knowing, Easy, Loud

  "Fictional character: Tom Booker". "The Horse Whisperer", www.imdb.com. May 15, 1998.

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• Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world.

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  Horse, Inspiration, Heart

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• Sometimes what seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in your own hearts.

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  Heart, Sometimes, Surrender

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• Look after each other. As a couple. When you have kids, you'll want to put them first. Don't. Marriage is like a plant. To keep it alive you've got to water it and feed it.

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  Couple, Kids, Water

  "The Divide".

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• She had seemed to need something from him that he hadn’t been able to give...at last he realized that what she had needed from him was need itself. That he should need her as she needed him.

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  Giving, Needs, Able

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