Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “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

352. “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

353. “Your opponent’s wrong doesn’t automatically make you right. Most fights aren’t about who’s right; they are contention over degrees of wrongness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

354. “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

355. “Imagined happiness is still happiness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

356. “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

357. “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

358. “If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

360. “If only I could take it all back. If only I could change a few early choices, those seemingly unimportant, insignificant choices. How vital they appear to me now. How different my life would be if I had not allowed even the least degree of sin to enter in. But time can be turned backwards for no one.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

361. “Why is the eye considered a reliable judge when it knows nothing of love or intelligence?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

362. “Honesty is considerably more than the absence of lying. It is the absence of deception, of cheating, of stealing, of treachery, of guile. But that is not all, honesty is the inclusion of virtuous characteristics as well: loyalty, justness, truth, accuracy, reliance, sincerity, openness. Honesty is every word, every action, and every intention being both bare and noble.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

363. “On Easter we wrap up pretty, little decorated eggs symbolizing life and renewal. We do this because of the intangibility of a promised gift, which is the eventual resurrection of the body, restored to its finest forever state. Easter celebrates life and the idea of its eternal value, most notably the life of the gift-giver who demands nothing in return. He is your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

364. “Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart’s content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone’s watching! The world’s a stage, remember?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

365. “I’m generally quite happy until someone tells me I’m not. I don’t see how they know I’m not, but suddenly I feel less happy.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

367. “Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

369. “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

370. “Southern DADDY – Dandy At Doin’ Diapers Y’all!”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

371. “Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

373. “Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

374. “With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

375. “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

376. “I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an ‘up to you’ thing.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

377. “A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

379. “You can lament over what could have been, or you can do something bold; use that energy to create an enviable future. It is up to you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

381. “Have you honestly pondered your individual worth? Consider every lower life form in the world – the animals, plants, fouls and fishes. Consider the land forms and numerous earthly wonders. Consider the countless worlds beyond this planet as well as their stars and galaxies. And then consider yourself. Of all God’s creations, you were formed in His image, resembling the likeness of a God. That’s something to think about.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

382. “Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

385. “No one believes he is an idiot until the consequences of his actions prove it. Then hindsight rubs it in.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

386. “Sunshine warms us, as do smiles – which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

387. “Forgiveness is kindness regardless.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

388. “Beauty is a behavior. As is ugliness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

389. “If you dream your problems at night and live your problems by day, you are suffering the effects of paralyzing toxins delivered by the sting of worry, stress, and fear. You must detach yourself from these leeches if you do not wish to be irreversibly poisoned.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

390. “Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

391. “It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

392. “Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

393. “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

394. “Father always said that money doesn’t grow on trees. Well, time doesn’t grow on trees either.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

395. “This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don’t allow it to be all-consuming when there’s so much more to embrace.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

396. “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

397. “The richest people are those who have an abundance of what we take with us into the next life.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

398. “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

399. “I love you” means I want you to be happy.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

400. “Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich