Richelle Goodrich Quotes

Moms are life's number one cheerleaders without uniforms.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your weaknesses may not seem overwhelming, but they will create the biggest problems you face.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Anyone who looks good with a bald head is seriously sexy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A man once believed he could fly—and he did. Another believed he could walk on the moon—and he did. Why not believe your wildest dreams can come true? Why not see the stars as reachable?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I dreamed my shoulders held up the sky for a thousand hawks that squawked and cawed and beat their feathered wings against the hotness of the day. I supported their flight, watching and marveling, until sweat dripped from my body, and groans crossed my lips over fatiguing muscles. Choosing to let the sky fall, I awoke. My eyes opened to a cast of hawks gripping me in their talons. They supported my weight, hauling me high above the clouds through a blue expanse of heaven. And though they struggled—squawking and flapping wearily—never once did a single bird release its hold.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence only grows stronger as science and technology record an expanse of galaxies filled with planetary solar systems beyond any visible end. Man is but a grain of sand lost on an endless seashore, and yet he believes with conviction in his own greatness.  He is either a divine soul intuitively aware of his inherent, limitless potential—or he is a blind fool.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Laughter and love are their own forms of exercise meant to keep a body healthy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are times you find yourself standing by the wayside, watching as someone struggles to dig a well with a spoon, and you wish with all your heart you had arms and a shovel.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Minutes turn into hours that add up to days amounting to weeks that become  months melting into yearsaccumulating for decadesto pile up for centuriesand ultimately form minutes again―just on a grander, divine scale.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It wasn't a kiss that changed the frog, but the fact that a young girl looked beneath warts and slime and believed she saw a prince. So he became one.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Mothers care in volumes of tears and earnestness of prayers and a depth of emotion others cannot fathom.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The Harvest Moon glows round and bold,In pumpkin shades outlined in gold,Illuminating eerie forms,Unnatural as a candied corn.Beware what dare crawls up your sleeve,For 'tis the night called Hallows Eve.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

We wait for the rains to cease, the clouds to part, and the sun to shine before saying life is good. Ironically, it is because we endure the storms that life seems so wonderfully bright at their passing.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Autumn is a cunning muse who steals by degrees my warmth and light. So distracted by her glorious painting of colors, I scarcely realize my losses until the last fiery leaf has fallen to the ground and the final pumpkin shrinks. Autumn departs with a cold kiss, leaving me to suffer the frigid grasp of winter in prolonged nightfall.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A monster's worst fear is of being found.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can't.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Life is a walk through the forest. Don't fear the trees, fear what lurks behind them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes while gazing at the night's sky, I imagine stars looking down making wishes on the brightest of us.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your tongue tends to say more about you when it blabs about other people.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A truly humble apology works to part storm clouds, calm rough seas, and bring on the soft lights of dawn; it has the power to change a person's world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Announcing the intended arrival of some people is kind of like issuing a hurricane warning. 

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

When my problems seem overwhelming and impossible to solve, I hold fast to these facts: God is real, He is right, and He cares.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's too bad we're not all teddy bears. More stuffing would only make us cuter and cuddlier.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The least effort is the feat most likely to be accomplished.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If one is content to freely speak trash about another, it is probably more correct to judge them as the one of ill repute and refuse the load of garbage they offer you.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

They went back to scooping up breakfast, licking the mess off their fingers. Soon the pile of berry mush was gone and their tongues were dyed a nice midnight blue. Ian seemed in a good mood, sticking his tongue out playfully at his best friend. Eena did likewise, right back at him. She was happy he was smiling, even if his teeth were purple. (You’re too much fun, Eena,) Ian announced in her mind. (I’m really glad we’re friends.) (Me too,) she agreed. (Best friends.) Ian leaned back on his hands and watched the waves roll in from far off. The swells were building into large, flat-crested waves. (Angelle never thought like you do. You’re creative and kinda crazy. Her thoughts were always more simple and, well…..normal.) (Yeah, well, deadly dragons and evil witches tend to suck all the normal right out of you,) she grumbled. (I suppose.)

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

But you will die, Amor

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich