Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

352. “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

353. “Life’s greatest lessons were not shown to me, read to me, illustrated or explained to me; they happened to me.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

355. “Someday my children will look fondly on the annoying things I did and see them clearly as evidence of love.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

357. “How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

360. “You never step backwards when you’re sure of where you’re going.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

361. “Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

362. “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

363. “Temptations don’t appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

364. “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

365. “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

366. “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

367. “Like yeast, it’s impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one’s efforts grow and expand.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

369. “It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

370. “Che significa che devo avere l’approvazione di qualcuno? Io sono qualcuno. Io approvo. Quindi do il permesso a me stesso di andare avanti con il mio pieno supporto.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

371. “Observe the Lord’s Day as he would have you, and perhaps He will observe your days as you would have Him.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

372. “Happiness is a frame of mind. It is a state of thinking. It is an attitude, a headset, a mentality. Happiness is a disposition and demeanor. It is a mood and sensibility. It is a philosophy, a notion, a tone, an outlook and perspective. Happiness is all of these things, none of which exist separate from me. They cannot be extracted or stolen because they constitute my very being. Therefore, happiness must be the natural essence of me.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

373. “It’s not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it’s not wrong to stand in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

376. “A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

378. “Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

379. “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

380. “You need tell me nothing; I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you’ve given yourself away.”

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

385. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

387. “We reap the fruit of the seeds we sow. Every good deed, every bad deed – they are the means of planting seeds that will reward us one day with a merited harvest from life’s garden.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

388. “While silently brooding, I am drawn to the start of a sweet melody that travels to my ear from afar. I smile, reminded that my heart can dance when my feet can’t.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

389. “Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

390. “Be proud of yourself. Be proud that your heart and intentions are good. Be proud of the fact that you are trying.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

393. “She laughed, and he fell in love.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

394. “Heaven’s currency is friendship.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

395. “It’s easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It’s harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

396. “Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

397. “The bulk of life is discovering who you are – and then reconciling that with who you wish you were.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

398. “It’s silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

399. “If you love something, you find a way to have it in your life. Opposers may take away your means and tools, but you simply turn to crude replacements, fashioning them from scraps if necessary. Threats only make you steal moments of secrecy to satisfy your love. And if it means but a morsel here and there, you accept each crumb gladly because nothing else can even begin to satisfy your hunger.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich