Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2024 Update)
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401. “Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

402. “It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

403. “I never realized how much you meant to me until someone spoke your name and an irrepressible, goofy grin stretched my lips.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

404. “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

405. “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

406. “Experience is the catalyst for all great stories.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

407. “The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

408. “It is a greater triumph for the fearful soul who tries and fails than for the fearless who succeed.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

410. “Afraid of offending with an off word or the slightest insensitivity, I keep an unobtrusive and silent distance. Nevertheless, my pursed lips and offish stance are perceived as cold, managing to offend all.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

411. “Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

412. “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

413. “What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

414. “Life is the clay from which dreams are molded.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

415. “Habits grow like dragons if you feed them.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

416. “In sleep I visit the vast unknown to dream wondrous possibilities into existence.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

417. “Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

418. “There is no poetry without want. Desperate want.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

419. “There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

420. “Your problem is in thinking the sky’s the limit. Why set limits?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

421. “A monster’s worst fear is of being found.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

422. “It is a fact that one man can be deliriously happy in the exact situation that causes another man to wither from depression.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

423. “It is tempting to quit striving toward a goal when you have neither the time, the resources, the support, the means, nor perhaps the confidence in talent to reach the level of standing you wish to reach. But these are not reasons to quit. Move forward anyway. Try your best. Put what little you do have into accomplishing what you can, because along the way you may attain a portion of what you feel is lacking. And owning a portion of a dream is better than owning no dream at all. Never give up.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

424. “Life made me an actor from birth. The world, darling, is not my stage but my audience.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

425. “Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

426. “People search the world over looking for someone to love them, when they should be searching for someone to love.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

427. “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

428. “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

429. “It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

430. “I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

431. “Those things that challenge the worst in us tend to strengthen the best in us.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

432. “I once thought it would take a miracle to improve my circumstances. Now, I believe it will take something far more powerful, if such a thing exists.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

433. “The magic of reading happens when an author’s written work strings you along until your imagination, aware of your wants, molds the tale into an extraordinary world to be visited frequently – perhaps dwelt in for years.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

435. “Christmastime is when love and kindness shine at their brightest.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

436. “If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

437. “Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

438. “Physical appearance has nothing to do with the quality of a person.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

439. “Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

440. “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

441. “Your life is a personal lesson. For everyone else it is a loud example.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

442. “When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

443. “Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing else tastes or sounds as sweet as laughter.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

444. “As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn’t lack for creativity.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

445. “Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

446. “I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

447. “Don’t ever quit pretending.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

448. “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

449. “Beauty isn’t visible; I don’t know why people think it is. Perhaps because at times there are physical manifestations suggesting beauty exists in a person, but don’t be fooled. Beauty isn’t the packaging, it’s the treasure wrapped up inside.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

450. “My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich