Browse 900 quotes about Richelle E Goodrich.
“Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To be a rainbow in someone’s cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“My mind is a box,
dark and lonely, enclosed.
It is a place I cannot escape.
My mind is a box,
bright and busy, exposed.
It is a place I can cultivate.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“To have belief is an act of mind.
To have hope is an act of mind and heart.
To have faith is an act of mind and heart and works combined.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If you dream your problems at night and live your problems by day, you are suffering the effects of paralyzing toxins delivered by the sting of worry, stress, and fear. You must detach yourself from these leeches if you do not wish to be irreversibly poisoned.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“When you worry about what others think of you and then bend to appease them, know that your life is not really yours. It belongs to the people who sway your choices because you let them.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“A finger beckons.
My choice is to turn away.
It is a mistake.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Be loved for who you are, for everything that constitutes you. Be loved for your core beliefs, your strengths and weaknesses, your admirable traits and troublesome baggage. Be loved for you, because anything less is not love at all.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Love is that soft, pleasing creature that contentedly purrs as it burrows deep into the heart to make a warm and permanent home.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“At the core of love is validation. It is what gives love power.
For when love is given away, validation seeps in and expands in the heart of the recipient, filling up every empty, dark corner. It is a wonderful, light, consuming feeling we long for, and once found, we hope—even expect—it will forever remain. But there are times when that most precious love is revoked, and a hard scab forms over the empty hole. Though this scab is both healing and protective, it is the reason why validation from future love may not seep in so easily, no matter how wanting the heart.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Time is a power of its own, and it may be the only power by which some miracles come to pass.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.”
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“Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Be grateful for the woman who worries about your welfare and checks on your whereabouts because if she stops obsessing, you can bet she no longer cares.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“The ears and the heart are connected, it’s true,
for when ears open wide, the heart opens up too.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes; I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.”
“I will admit you are the finest if not the loveliest rose in the garden. But you see, my dear, I was looking for a sunflower.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I felt sad.
I felt cold.
I felt hurt.
I felt forsaken and lonely.
I felt doubtful and hesitant.
I felt scared and deeply worried.
I felt different, unknown, and unwelcome.
I felt empty and woefully neglected.
I felt weak and intimidated.
I felt withdrawn and shy.
I felt utterly hopeless.
Then you held my hand,
and I felt better.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A word of consolation
may sweetly touch the ear.
Now and then a quiet song
will clear the mind of fear.
A simple act of kindness
can ease a load of care.
Stories told in memory
diminish all despair.
A whispered prayer of comfort
draws angel arms around.
Counting blessings, great and small,
helps gratitude abound.
These acts, all sympathetic,
will kindly play their part.
But seldom do they dry the tears
shed mutely in the heart.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I stumble and fall.
I weep and struggle to rise.
My mom feels it all.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“For things I am not thankful for―experiences I would never volunteer to relive―I recognize how they have changed me. My depth of compassion and humility, the sincerity of my empathy and understanding, and the duration of my patience have all been refined by bitter suffering. I thank God for the lessons learned. I am a better person for it, but I still abhor those awful trials.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I don’t want to be lonely, but I don’t want to be miserable either.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“A box sits empty,
wanting to hold and protect.
Hollow tears it cries.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Bad habits are demons that often push us into isolation because they know that in our loneliness they stand little chance of being overcome.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“What does freedom mean? It means warriors are fighting for you, defenses are protecting you, and soldiers are sacrificing to preserve your ability to speak, to act, to live, and to express yourself in a world where a great many aggressors would oppress those freedoms if not for the heroic resistance preventing them.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The hero isn’t the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame—deserved or not—and apologize to save a relationship.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Heroes don’t have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I don’t think of you as a typical beauty. I never once did.
To me your hair mimics asphalt more than the lustrous feathers of ravens. Comparing your eyes to heavenly lights seems a stretch when they are the common color of dirt. I can’t imagine you as a tall, pole-slender image; your God-given shape is right bulky.
But I never cared about such pointless things anyway.
What good have trivial attributes ever done the world?
When I look at you, I see you—or in other words, all of you that really matters. I see a kind heart and compassionate arms. I see a patient, gentle spirit abounding with love towards all of God’s creatures. I see the perfect blend of humility and strength of character. I see a wise intellect as well as an endearing sense of humor. I see all the qualities that make you the person I love, regardless of the bodily package you’re bound in.
So forgive me if I don’t think you’re beautiful, because I find you to be far superior to that worthless and pointless nonsense the world calls beauty.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“The Devil's Rose
You would never take a rose from a beast.
If his callous hand were to hold out a scarlet flower, his grip unaffected by pricking thorns, you would shrink from the gift and refuse it. I know that is what you would do.
But the cunning beast will have his beauty.
He hunts not in hopeless pursuit, for fear would have you sprint all the day long. Thus, he turns toward the shadows and clutches the rosebud, crunching and twisting until every delicate petal is detached. One falls not far from your feet, and you notice the red spot in the snow.
The color sparkles in the sunlight, catching your curious eye. No beast stands in sight; there is nothing to fear, so you dare retrieve the lone petal. The touch of temptation is velvet against your thumb. It carries a scent you bring to your nose, and both eyes close to float on a cloud of perfume.
As your lashes lift, another scarlet drop stains the snow at a near distance. A glance around perceives no danger, and so your footprints scar the snowflakes to retrieve another rosy leaflet as soft and sweet as the first. Your eyes shine with flecks of golden greed at the discovery of more discarded petals, and you blame the wind for scattering them mere footprints apart. All you want is a few, so you step and snatch, step and snatch, step and snatch.
Soon, there is enough velvet to rub against your cheek like a silken kerchief. Your collection of one-plus-one-more reeks of floral essence.
Distracted, you jump at the sight of the beast in your path. He stands before his lair, grinning without love. His callous hands grip at thorns on a single naked stem, and you look down at your own hands that now cup his rose. But how can it be? You would never take a rose from a beast. You would shrink from the gift and refuse it. He knows that is what you would do.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Don’t whisper your wishes to faraway stars,
shout them boldly at the sun.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If I were to sit on the ocean floor and look toward the sky,
I might see a whale or electric eel or octopus pass by.
And if I decided to jump straight up and reach with open arms,
I might feel the pleasure of ocean flight propel me ’mid their swarms.
But if I were seated upon the shore and looking toward the stars,
I might see a comet or falling star near Mercury or Mars.
Then if I decided to jump straight up and reach with open hands,
I might feel despair when my feet refused to leave the shoreline sand.
And so I return to the ocean depths where swimming creatures fly,
For there I can soar with the whales and fish that daily touch the sky.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“A man once believed he could fly—and he did.
Another believed he could walk on the moon—and he did.
Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true?
Why not see the stars as reachable?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year