Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2025 Update)
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401. “In sleep I visit the vast unknown to dream wondrous possibilities into existence.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

405. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

414. “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

415. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

417. “Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don’t make a u-turn.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

418. “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

419. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

423. “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

424. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

426. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

430. “Heaven’s currency is friendship.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

431. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

433. “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

434. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

439. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

441. “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

442. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

445. “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

446. “If you love someone, support his or her passion. Be the crazy, devoted, love-sick, number-one fan that sustains him or her through times of disappointment and doubt.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

447. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

450. “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