Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes Quotes
It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.
No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.
Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.
I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.
It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.
I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.
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.
Happiness is a simple game of lost and found: Lose the things you take for granted, and you will feel great happiness once they are found.
Without you there would be no me. I am everything reflected in your eyes. I am everything approved by your smile. I am everything born of your guidance. I am me only because of you.
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.
If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.
Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.
You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.
Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.
Sometimes the difference between success and failure is simply the degree to which you crave one over the other.
Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.
Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.
Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
Love is many kind acts accumulated over time that leave us feeling wonderful.
A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.
The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.
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.
The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived.
Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path. You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.
If you plan to build walls around me, know this—I will walk through them.
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.
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.
Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.
I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times.
Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart’s content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone’s watching! The world’s a stage, remember?
The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.
So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.
Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.
Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.
Something wonderful is about to happen, and something awful is about to happen. You can dwell on either one. It’s your choice.
The richest people are those who have an abundance of what we take with us into the next life.
It is my belief that almost anyone can be had with breadcrumbs. For if you leave a trail of the right variety, your prey will come straight to you.
In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.
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?
Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.
There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.
