Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters – because it’s who you are.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

355. “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

356. “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

357. “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

358. “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

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

363. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

366. “The cup is both half full and half empty; it has never been one or the other. Stop obsessing over a trivial point and be thankful you have something to drink.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

367. “If throughout your entire life you make no fortune; travel next to nowhere; obtain a meager education; invent nothing new; are a stranger to fame; lack talent, wit, and charm – if these things are true and yet in the heart of every human who crosses your path you plant a seed of happiness, or, at the very least, you coax a smile from the saddest faces, your life will indeed be the greatest success story ever.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

368. “I drifted off after a while, staring at the only star visible through the thick covering of leaves. Hope seemed a futile wish, but I troubled the lonely star to grant it anyway.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

369. “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

370. “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

371. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

373. “It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

376. “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

377. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

381. “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

382. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

387. “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

388. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

393. “Forgiveness is kindness regardless.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

395. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

397. “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

398. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

400. “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