Richelle Goodrich Quotes
What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.
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.
You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.
Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
A session of boasting won't attract any real friends. It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.
Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.
While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.
Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.
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?
Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.
Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.
Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?
Was mutual need enough to risk trusting a calculated enemy in hopes of destroying a more powerful one?
Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn't quite grasp.
You can't make me be nice.You can't make me be good.You can't make me be
Every now and then I sit and watch the sun rise to remind myself how it's done—peacefully, steadily, warmly, and in beautiful color.
