Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2026 Update)
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351. “Some people do not like you; that’s a given. So what?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

352. “There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

357. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

359. “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

360. “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

361. “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

362. “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

363. “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

364. “Imagined happiness is still happiness.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

365. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

369. “I don’t doubt that you think you love me; what I doubt is your understanding of love.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

370. “Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

371. “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

372. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

374. “Music is my enchanter, the seducer of my emotions, the fire and ice that moves me.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

375. “Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

377. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

380. “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

381. “I tried and they laughed, but I laughed harder because I knew none of them had the nerve to even try.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

384. “Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

385. “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

386. “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

387. “When an individual changes for the better, the world changes for the better. It happens one person at a time.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

391. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

393. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

399. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich