Top 500 Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes (2026 Update)
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401. “You never step backwards when you’re sure of where you’re going.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

402. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

407. “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

408. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

414. “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

415. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

419. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

422. “Books are wishing stars fallen to Earth, waiting for people to live their dreams through reading.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

424. “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

425. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

427. “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

428. “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

429. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

433. “Heaven’s currency is friendship.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

434. “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

435. “You know the wolf in sheep’s clothing? He is the enticing offer to sell out. But selling out is not success; it is defeat in disguise. Do not be fooled by that hungry wolf.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

438. “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

439. “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

440. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

443. “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

444. “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

445. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

447. “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

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

— Richelle E. Goodrich

450. “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