Browse 900 quotes about Richelle E Goodrich.
“Trying to go faster than the Lord’s timing is like trying to cross a bridge before the entire structure is built. Trust God. Trust his timetable. He will help you traverse stormy waters safely.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Forgiveness does not mean we minimize the sin or ignore the consequences that occurred as a result. It means we maximize our faith, trusting that both justice and mercy will be extended at God’s hand towards those affected.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong?
In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Memories of past.
Heartaches of old.
Courage of brass.
Lessons of gold.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“A stubbornly proud man cannot humble himself; he has neither the strength nor the courage. So have pity, then, and forgive him.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I am stronger than temptation.
I am stronger than addiction.
I am stronger than habit.
I am strong enough to change.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“A great amount of compassion is communicated in the simple act of taking someone’s hand and holding on tightly. It creates a spiritual vein through which strength, comfort, and hope are transfused to revitalize the soul.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Everyone needs a support system, be it family, friends, coworkers, therapists, or religious leaders. We cannot do life alone and expect to keep mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Everyone needs some sort of support system on which to rely.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I thank God above that I have someone in my life with whom I can share the whole story of why I am the way I am.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“You can endure almost anything if you have someone at your side who cares.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Gentle, honest, heart-to-heart conversations—the deep kind that reach inside your soul to fan at dying embers, making them glow and emit warmth that soothes both flesh and mind—are worth more than the combined wealth of universes.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Friendship true is a vow of care.
A warm embrace when in despair.
A loving presence waiting there
to lift a heart, its burdens bear.
Friendship true is an earnest prayer.
A tongue of praise for one’s welfare.
A smile ’mid laughs as light as air,
and thoughtfulness most kind and rare.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“What is so rewarding about friendship?” my son asked, curling his upper lip into a sour expression. “Making friends takes too much time and effort, and for what?”
I sat on the edge of his bed, understanding how it might seem simpler to go at life solo.
“Friendship has unique rewards,” I told him. “They can be unpredictable. For instance....” I couldn’t help but pause to smile crookedly at an old memory that was dear to my heart. Then I shared with my son an unforgettable incident from my younger years.
“True story. When I was about your age, I decided to try out for a school play. Tryouts were to begin after the last class of the day, but first I had to run home to grab a couple props for the monologue I planned to perform during tryouts. Silly me, I had left them at the house that morning. Luckily, I only lived across a long expanse of grassy field that separated the school from the nearest neighborhood. Unluckily, it was raining and I didn’t have an umbrella.
“Determined to get what I needed, I raced home, grabbed my props, and tore back across the field while my friend waited under the dry protection of the school’s wooden eaves. She watched me run in the rain, gesturing for me to go faster while calling out to hurry up or we would be late.
“The rain was pouring by that time which was added reason for me to move fast. I didn’t want to look like a wet rat on stage in front of dozens of fellow students. Don’t ask me why I didn’t grab an umbrella from home—teenage pride or lack of focus, I’m not sure—but the increasing rain combined with the hollering from my friend as well as my anxious nerves about trying out for the play had me running far too fast in shoes that lacked any tread.
“About a yard from the sidewalk where the grass was worn from foot traffic and consequently muddied from the downpour of rain, I slipped and fell on my hind end. Me, my props, and my dignity slid through the mud and lay there, coated. My things were dripping with mud. I was covered in it. I felt my heart plunge, and I wanted to cry. I probably would have if it hadn’t been for the wonderful thing that happened right then. My crazy friend ran over and plopped herself down in the mud beside me. She wiggled in it, making herself as much a mess as I was. Then she took my slimy hand in hers and pulled us both to our feet. We tried out for the play looking like a couple of swine escaped from a pigsty, laughing the whole time. I never did cry, thanks to my friend.
“So yes, my dear son, friendship has its unique rewards—priceless ones.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If I could have one friend,
just one in all the world,
I know that I would not seek out
a boy or pretty girl.
The friend I’d dare to choose
to stand by me each day
would be a dragon fierce enough
to scare the world away.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Laugh, and the world longs to be your friend.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Maybe love isn’t meant to be bliss never-ending.
Maybe love is unwavering support and befriending.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“On a grim and dismal day that shattered my last ounce of confidence, I broke down and whimpered, “I’m awful and hideous and incompetent and boring and utterly useless.” And then you grinned at me and said, “That’s okay.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight.
There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs.
And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service.
So lift up your eyes.
Refuse to be unhappy.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It’s a difficult thing having a heart made of glass; people don’t seem to realize how easily it shatters. How often I’ve swept up the pieces and carefully glued them back together.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“Every heart has a layer of sadness, whether deeply buried or covering the surface for all to see.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“What is this thing of intangible substance that wreaks consequential havoc on our lives? What is this sensitive thread that runs through heart and mind, and when given the slightest tremor grasps hold of all sanity, dragging the afflicted down to insufferable depths or flinging him weightless to euphoric heights? What is this magic we would deem imagination, fantasy, or pretend if not for the evidence of power manifest by human consequences? Effortlessly controlling us, it affects the infected in an instant. It takes but one word, one thought, one act to become immersed.
To stop it is hopeless.
To stifle it, demanding.
To think to master it is both improbable and pretentious.
What is this invisible hand that blinds our eyes and reigns hearts with a string? It is nature's drug and poison we call emotion.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I love you because you loved me first. Yet you love me, saying I loved you first. Funny, our love thrives believing the other person started it.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“God is always watching. Always.
It is more feasible to think you can hide your thoughts and actions from yourself than to hope you can hide them from God.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Honesty is the beating heart in good people.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Honesty is considerably more than the absence of lying. It is the absence of deception, of cheating, of stealing, of treachery, of guile. But that is not all, honesty is the inclusion of virtuous characteristics as well: loyalty, justness, truth, accuracy, reliance, sincerity, openness. Honesty is every word, every action, and every intention being both bare and noble.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“It isn’t the education, the job, the promotion, the salary, the material increase—none of that. The real gold is the integrity you gain or lose throughout the process. If you don’t want to cross a line, don’t approach it.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Why be honest when no one else is?” This seems to be the motto of all sinking ships.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“You cannot deceive God; He already knows. He always knows. Concentrate on being honest with yourself.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Your failure or success is nothing compared to your integrity throughout the process.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I wish to live in the world behind my eyes. It is a wondrous world; one worthy of dreams. Worthier still of bringing to life.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“My favorite thing is to get lost in an imaginary world that is so real in my imagination, I know I will replay fond memories of time spent there for years to come.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I found a room, both quiet and slow,
a room where the walls are thick.
Where pixie dust is kept in jars,
and paper rockets soar to Mars,
and battles leave no lasting scars
as clocks forget to tick.
I guard this room, both small and bare,
this room in which stories live.
Where Peter Pan and Alice play,
and Sinbad sails at dawn of day,
and wolves cry 'boy' to get their way
when ogres won’t forgive.
With you I’ll share my hiding place,
this room under cloak and spell.
We’ll snuggle up inside a nook,
and read a venturous story book,
that makes us question in a look
what nonsense fairies tell.
In fictive plots and fabled ends,
Our happy-e’er-afters dwell!”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“My favorite words in the world are these:
“what” and “if” in conjunction.
They question curiosities
in simple form and function.
“What” is a query of broadest scope.
“If" is wonder that fuels all hope.
Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If you ever expect to write fairy tales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.”
“The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently—perhaps dwelt in for years.”
“You are the only being exactly like you who will ever grace this earth. That makes you extraordinary.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“You do not need to be perfect or popular or profitable with your endeavors. You should, however, be passionate about them.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Passion is that inner fire that keeps you moving when the engines have all cooled down.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“How do you ignite your passion? It takes only a spark. A forward step, an inspired word, a bold attempt, a look, a nudge—anything that sets off a flicker of excitement. When it is your passion, the smallest thing can ignite it.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Death lurks in the shadows, just out of view.
Now and then I see his reaching hand, uncertain of the blurry image that passes before my eyes, but conscious of the crippling influence of his touch.
Some say Death rears an ugly head, so hideous a view the beholder can scarcely gasp their last breath. Others call him beautiful, a sweet relief to look upon. But these are rumors babbled by the unknowing. For Death is like the gorgon, Medusa, who when perceived, turns the body to stone.
Those who know Death take the knowledge of his shadowed face with them to wherever it is he leads our dearly departed by the hand. All who are left behind must wait their turn to glance into the eyes of the one who will close our mouths forever.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty is not love.
Money is not happiness.
Fame is not friendship.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year