Browse 1189 quotes about Richelle Goodrich.
“When an individual changes for the better, the world changes for the better. It happens one person at a time.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“My mind was caught up in an inexplicable mystery!
I had changed, and it bothered me. Not like a subtle adaptation one would deem a nuisance, but vitally enough to eat at my gut. Like a snake slithering out of its old, scaly skin, I had somehow shed my previous self—a person whom I feared was my better self. How had this happened? And so fast! So drastically!”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“You were born to author your own story. This includes editing the bad parts. Go back. Repent. Climb where you fell. Joy where you sorrowed. Mend what you tore. Heal where you harmed. Speak where you were silent. Sing and laugh and dance where life once snatched your pen and scribbled black, ugly marks in your book. Buy new ink and print beautiful poetry over all the ugly parts.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Where does our laughter travel to?
Does it search out monkeys in the zoo?
Or settle on the heart like dew?
Or cling to lip-glossed smiles on me and you?
Does it hang around throughout the day?
Or spread its wings and fly away?
Or gather-in like puffy clouds of gray?
Perhaps it hooks a rainbow’s end
And melts to make the colors blend.
Or paints a happy face upon a friend.
Does it turn to stardust when it’s late?
Or in a windstorm, circulate?
Or does it simply fade and dissipate?
What is our laughter’s merrymaking fate?”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“The elixir of life is a bubbling stream of laughter.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Laughter can deflate almost any problem down to its proper size.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The best bubbly I ever tasted was laughter.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Quit acting like everything is so serious. Most situations aren’t as bad as you fear, and those that are might benefit from a little laughter.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“It is in the midst of laughter that our perspective alters and we realize this trying life can still be enjoyed.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Ha ha ha ha!
Tee-hee-hee!
Mwa-ha mwa-ha!
Kee kee kee!
Ho ho ho ho!
Haw-hee-haw!
Heh heh heh heh!
Gah guffaw!
Hoo hoo hoo hoo!
Hoi hoi-eee!
Ba ha ha ha!
Tsee tsee tsee!
Giggle, titter,
snicker, crow,
laughter makes
my 'happy' grow!”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Take time to laugh, to talk, to hug, and to cry. These are the human relief valves.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“I laugh for sheer medicinal purposes; because I feel I might die otherwise.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Laughter isn't a sign of insanity but a shield against it.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“There are an abundance of things in my life that I would not have picked out for me, yet I value those items, experiences, customs, and memories because they were given to me by someone I love.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“I believe the main purpose of life is to accept with gratitude what you've been blessed with so that you may use those gifts to mold yourself into the best person you can possibly be. Learning to discern things of true value from those of little or no worth is part of the process.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“There are these amazing little seeds called compassion. You should grow some.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“We never see the full picture. We cannot know a person’s life and challenges at a glimpse.
We never hear the full story. We cannot grasp a person’s viewpoint through mere words.
We never feel the full pain. We cannot perceive a person’s heart and mind in a conversation.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love—the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I lowered my hands and stared at the tiny horse, considering his question. I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I envied. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her.
I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Yes, of course we could all use some help. There isn't a person alive without a need. So don't ask the silly question, just figure out how you're going to help and do it!”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Repentance is a reusable, compassionate, and merciful gift. Use it. Wear it out if needed.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“The choices were mine. The errors, mine. But if people only understood how those mistakes were never intended. If only they understood how I never meant to end up here. Not like this. Never this broken. Never this stained. Perhaps if they understood, they would cease to speak of me in the cold, judgmental way they do. If only one person understood.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“The experiences we endure as trials are what cultivate compassion in our hearts. We feel for others because we have suffered similarly. We know and empathize, having tasted the bitterness for ourselves. Sadly but truly, it is the harshest trials that tend to cultivate the deepest compassion. Trials are every person’s lot in life. You are not alone.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Some people have never received compassion, only criticism. That is why criticism is all they have to hand out.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If you have never suffered through it, then you don’t understand it. There are no exceptions.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“There are times I wish anxiety served no good purpose. That it could be surgically removed and discarded like an infected gallbladder, one that has tormented a body with constant bouts of pain. The agony is similar—so strenuously endured. What scalpel exists to carve out anxiety from both heart and mind? What prescription can subdue the inflammation? Is there a cure? Or is it somehow essential? A vital part of life that if lacking would cause us to eventually wither away. I see strength gained from it, lessons learned from it, and compassion sprout in its soil. But is there no other way? There are times I wish anxiety served no good purpose.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“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
“Take a step back. Draw in a deep breath. Now ask yourself 'so what?' Then, after answering, ask yourself again 'so what?' And then a third time—'so what?' Chances are you'll come to realize that the issue at hand is not as dire, detrimental, or important as you first thought.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear's power comes from within me. So, I ask myself, does that not make me the powerful one?”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings 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
“It's a waste of time worrying about something that worry won't fix. It's about as useful as trying to feed your pet rock.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year