Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes

Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Love—such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart.  Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man. 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her. I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm not asking you to walk in my shoes, I'd never wish my afflictions on anyone. But could you walk beside me on secure ground and reach to hold my hand?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kind words are salve to a cankered soul, spread generously.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness is still the best antidote.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

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?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there, it's there waiting to be noticed.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I could really use someone else's smile today.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!

~ Richelle E. Goodrich