Richelle E Goodrich Quotes

To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Heaven's currency is friendship.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

People are drawn to you because you make them feel happy, I understand that. But wouldn't it be nice to have people flock to you wishing for your happiness?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.

~ 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

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

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

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

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 is still the best antidote.

~ 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

Kindness is a girl's best friend.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The Christmas spirit is simply an honest spirit of love for all humanity. It is the force that moves us to give what we can, to help as we are able, and to always be of kind comfort.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich