Richelle Quotes

Hope is a fire more ravenous than the flames of temptation.  For if only a portion of it poisons your veins, it is enough to make you stand against ridiculous odds again and again and again.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound love―show me.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

There are things known—things experienced, felt, and understood—that words hold no power to convey. Attempting to do so only dilutes their substance and does them injustice.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Why certainly, words possess power.  They do!  But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it is not wrong to sit in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it's not wrong to stand in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies—loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt—every time they come around.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything—literally and figuratively.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

In someone's darkest hour your simple act of kindness may imitate the sunrise, and to sad eyes you become their only source of light.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sorrow on another's face often looks like coldness, bitterness, resentment, unfriendliness, apathy, disdain, or disinterest when it is in truth purely sadness.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Discouragement, fear, and depression—three villains who lurk in the dark.They slip inside souls with a blindfold and goals to shatter your dreams and extinguish your spark.Their tactics are highly effective.They crush a great many each day.And under their spell it is easy to dwellOn fiascoes and failures that end in dismay.The heart and the mind are left heavy.The last speck of will is erased.And nothing stays on when these villains are gonebut a mouthful of bile with the bitterest taste.Alas! You must conquer the scoundrels!Elude, dodge, and keep them at bay!To feel fear slink in, boring under your skin,is a sign that his brothers are well on their way.So reach for your weapons against them!Take hope and hard work in each hand!Strap faith on your hips and a prayer on your lipsand show those debasers how firmly you stand!Discouragement, fear and depression—the truth should be known of these cads.They’re empty and weak; it is your strength they seek.Deny them and life is your wish in the bag.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe, it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Rain is a lullaby heard through a thick, isolating blanket of clouds. It is the tinkling harp of water droplets; a moist breath whistling through willow reeds; a pattering beat background to the mourner's melody. Rain is a soft song of compassion for the brokenhearted.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

If every day you were to walk past the same individual and ignore him, never smiling or saying hello or returning any kind gesture he extended toward you, would you expect that same individual to readily respond if suddenly you were to implore his helping hand? Then don’t ignore God. Say ‘hello’ now and then.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Pray as if you are fully aware that the intricate timing and rotation of every celestial entity in the universe—including the coming and going of innumerable, precious life forms—does not rest in your tiny, mortal hands.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Pray for good.Pray for happy.And always pray for Mom.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Flames burn so long as they are fed. Rivers rage so long as it rains. The sun rises so long as the earth rotates. Prayers are answered so long as they are uttered.Hope exists so long as there is a new day. Miracles never cease so long as there is faith. Love endures so long as kindness rules all actions. Dreams thrive so long as they are pursued. Never give up so long as you live.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I realized at that moment - observing his form move further away without once turning back - that I’d already begun to rebuild the imaginary wall between us. I was shielding my heart with stone cold feelings again, the only way I knew to protect it. I still planned to try my hand at prayer. If God would grant me this one request, if I could keep my only friend, I would give anything in return, even the treasured books trapped beneath my arm. I’d tasted enough of a dismal life to know that a real, true friend was of greater worth than the collection of every imagined fairytale in the world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Dear God,I hurt. Please hold me.Amen

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Prayer:  The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Prayer, faith, and vision, plus real effort too.Blend them together for one potent brew.The magical spell to your dreams coming true.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich