Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes Quotes
Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.
Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.
Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?
There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.
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.
Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.
The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.
If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.
Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.
Love is many kind acts accumulated over time that leave us feeling wonderful.
Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.
Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood—they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger.
Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.
Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.
You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life.
If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.
Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.
The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.
Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?
A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?
Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move.
The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case.
A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.
Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.
It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.
It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice.
It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.
The sun, rising and setting in splendid colors, never grows tired of its admirers―much like a lady, aglow with grace, never grows tired of chivalrous acts or pretty flowers.
Determined, I riseand face the dawn with resolve.This time I will win.
The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days, most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears, I call a symphony on air―the song of sweet, still silence rare.
You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.
Helpful is happy.Selfish is sad.(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.)
I stumble and fall.I weep and struggle to rise.My mom feels it all.
A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
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.
It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.
A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.
Before you take that first curious, coerced, spiteful, or vengeful step forward, remember this: it’s a thousand times easier to slip into a muddy pit than it is to climb out of one.
Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.
