Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes
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.
The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.
Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.
I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.
Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.
To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.
A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.
Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.
Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.
There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.
Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.
It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.
Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.
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.
Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.
Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.
The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.
Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.
Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious—every portion of you recognizes home. That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy.
Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.
The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.
Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.
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.
I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
