Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The bigger the dream, the better the story.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

52. “The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

53. “My life is a fairy tale stuck at the climax.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

54. “Never be intimidated by what seems ominous, for BiG is only an accumulation of many smalls.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

55. “Everyone needs a support system, be it family, friends, coworkers, therapists, or religious leaders. We cannot do life alone and expect to keep mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Everyone needs some sort of support system on which to rely.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

56. “You cannot change the past. This truth can be a hard pill to swallow.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

57. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

59. “I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

60. “We daydream to heal, to hope, to be happier. It is mental and emotional therapy. Daydreams are experiences both imagined and felt, which makes them very real to the mind and the heart. So relax. Smile. Daydream.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

61. “It’s frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

62. “If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

63. “Sometimes, I live an entire life in a daydream.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

64. “Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull; find out where it takes you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

66. “Hey, pretty book, why don’t you lie in my lap awhile?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

67. “I saw a man climb a mountain with no feet or hands and barely a stump for each arm and leg. At once I realized there was no excuse at all for me not to scale my own mountains.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

68. “Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

69. “You are mistaken; he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

70. “It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

71. “Success is the result of moving forward. Concentrate on that fact, regardless of how slow or fast, how poorly or well things seem to be going. If you are moving forward, you are succeeding.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

72. “Forgiveness does not mean we minimize the sin or ignore the consequences that occurred as a result. It means we maximize our faith, trusting that both justice and mercy will be extended at God’s hand towards those affected.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

73. “You can learn big things from small promptings if you listen.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

74. “Know what your objective is. Anything that does not contribute to that objective is unnecessary; let those things go.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

75. “Let gratitude saturate your heart for every good thing, both great and small, and then endure – oh, steadfastly endure – all else that remains.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

76. “You will never have enough until you are grateful for what you have.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

77. “Believing in your own worth radiates enough inner light to make you glow.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

78. “Your choices and efforts, be they small or grand, mold and define who you are. Poor choices and minimal effort will result in the poorest version of you. Mediocre choices combined with doing just-enough-to-get-by will create a mediocre you. To be the best version of yourself, to reach your greater potential, make the very best choices possible. Put forth your highest efforts in everything. Be intentionally productive with the time you have. Work to do your best!”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

79. “Never judge another knight without first knowing the strength and cunning of the dragons he fights.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

80. “I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

81. “Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

82. “The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

83. “A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

84. “On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

86. “I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

87. “A sunrise is a wondrous marvel, but in reality the sun never rises. It is the earth that rotates to face the sun. Life too can be a wondrous marvel, but like the earth, we must turn our eyes toward brighter things.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

88. “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

89. “Sometimes you have to hug yourself and squeeze your own shoulder and be thankful it is humanly possible.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

90. “Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms – such things do exist. They’re called books.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

91. “At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world – to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

92. “To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

93. “If you invest nothing, the reward is worth little.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

94. “So you had a bad day. Kick it aside and be grateful for one less bad day to pass through.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

95. “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

96. “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

97. “When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour or smile and look for rainbows.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

98. “Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

99. “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

100. “Moments always blossom more beautifully in memories.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich