Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes
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.
Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.
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.
Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for.
What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.
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.
When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.
The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.
Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third.
It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible. Why? Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.
The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.
Do you feel that? It is a calm shift in the wind. Do you hear that? It is a soft whisper of hope. Do you see that? It is the divine hand of guidance, mercifully extended to aid our good fight.
You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.
Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?
If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.
Vengeance would have us assault an enemy's pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.
Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.
Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?
I'm generally quite happy until someone tells me I'm not. I don't see how they know I'm not, but suddenly I feel less happy.
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.
The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.
You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.
It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.
Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.
Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.
Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.
Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.
Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.
Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.
Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.
It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.
Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.
To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.
When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.
A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.
Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.
