Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Imagined happiness is still happiness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

302. “As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

303. “You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

304. “To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine’s Day echo every day of the year.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

305. “Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

306. “Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

307. “I dream of defeating tyrants and ogres as well as circumstances and consequences that I cannot conquer in life. I dream of a love as sweet and addictive as chocolate-coated rose petals yet as tenacious as a thirsty vampire and as enduring as immortality. I dream of things improbable and boldly insane.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

308. “If I expect nothing of you, it will be far easier to forgive your offenses than if I place my whole world in your hands.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

309. “Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

310. “When someone tells me to ‘just relax,’ I wonder why they don’t hand me a book?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

311. “You can blame everyone for your circumstances, but that will not change the fact that you still must live in them. Change does not come until you take responsibility for your choices and proceed to do something. You must make the change happen. You must do it. In truth, no one else is to blame if things fail to change.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

312. “There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

313. “When dragons attack, the only thing you should seek to stand behind is your own sword.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

314. “I can overlook the lie; what’s harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

315. “Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

316. “If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

317. “Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

318. “Some people do not like you; that’s a given. So what?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

319. “You cannot fully understand a person’s need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you’ll fall short until you’ve been there.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

320. “I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

321. “As sunlight is for flowers, and sustenance for the mortal shell, music is for the human soul.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

322. “When you delete ‘impossible’ from your thinking, you give yourself permission to imagine, to believe, to try, and to accomplish phenomenal things.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

323. “When there is not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

324. “I can be tolerant of traffic jams and disorganization, faulty technology, miserable weather, and bland foods. People, however, require more than the cold, grudging favor of being tolerated. They require love.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

325. “The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

326. “It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and in quiet, earnest prayers as well as in the heart of one who loves.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

327. “Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

328. “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

329. “There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters – because it’s who you are.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

330. “The truth is that few know the truth.”

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331. “An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself.”

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

333. “Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

334. “Life is not about having perfect days. Life is not about handling days perfectly. Life is about perfecting one’s character through the having and handling of every given day.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

335. “I’ve yet to find another soul who believes in me with the same fervency as my mother.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

336. “Life is music to which you choreograph your own dance.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

337. “Closing your eyes won’t make the awfulness go away. It may be that nothing will. But dwelling on it, dreading the evil, playing out the misery in your head – doesn’t this feed the monster? You can’t close your eyes to life, but you can choose where your gaze lingers.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

338. “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

339. “I can’t force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

340. “Oh, how terribly backwards, and yet sadly common, it is to sit scowling at family all the day long and then quickly put on a smile for strangers who drop by.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

342. “Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

343. “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

344. “Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

345. “They say if you’re a better person today than you were yesterday you’re well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I’m a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

346. “You can wallow in miserable self-pity all the days of your life and do nothing but drown in your own tears. Or you can stand up and reach out to draw others from their wallowing, effectively saving lives. Life is no punishment; you weren’t put here just for you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

347. “I like bubbles in everything. I respect the power of silence. In cold or warm weather I favor a mug of hot cocoa. I admire cats – their autonomy, grace, and mystery. I awe at the fiery colors in a sunset. I believe in deity. I hear most often with my eyes, and I will trust a facial expression before any accompanying comment. I invent rules, words, adventures, and imaginary friends. I pretend something wonderful every day. I will never quit pretending.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

348. “Kresh kept silent beside me as Baron rehearsed his deadly plan. I listened with my eyes aimed at the horizon, witnessing the night consume a final red vein of daylight. It struck me that nightfall always drowned the sunset. Never did the sun resurface from where it sank, nor would it ever.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

349. “It’s a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch – all in a flicker of thought. That’s why I love writing.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

350. “Moms are life’s number one cheerleaders without uniforms.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich