Top 100 Richelle Goodrich Quotes
#1. Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.
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#2. Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.
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#3. It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.
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#4. Effective parenting requires being the grown up version of what you want your children to be. Why? Because example is the most compelling superpower.
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#6. Forgiveness is a revolving door positioned in your path. You must step through it to move on, but it takes both timing and choice to escape walking circles inside.
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#7. You need tell me nothing; I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you've given yourself away.
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#8. Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.
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#9. I love when I finish reading a chapter that I wrote and my cheeks hurt from smiling and all I can utter is, 'Wow.'
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#10. Laughing in my ear is a muse amused by how I paint her whims on paper with silly words.
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#11. Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It's called being an example.
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#12. A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.
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#13. Life is a bonfire where everyone else has brought marshmallows, and you - a stick.
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#14. I wonder at times if we're not all blind. It just seems there are an abundance of books unread, paint strokes not admired, and performances unattended. So much attention painstakingly sought and not given.
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#16. It is to our own detriment that we underestimate the might of small and simple things.
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#17. There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.
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#18. The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
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#19. Mystery, why so attractive to me?
You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.
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#20. I wish I could fly.
I wish I were rich.
I wish I had more time."
"But you can, and you are, and you do;
I wish you would open your eyes.
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#21. Glittering tinsel,
lights, glass balls, and candy canes
dangle from pine trees.
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#22. I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier.
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#23. It's simply this:
the Irish kiss,
a snog o' bliss,
be blessed luck
from any miss.
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#24. You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.
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#25. What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.
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#26. It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
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#27. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.
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#29. Life is a book that someone else is reading - and you, a key character - hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.
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#30. Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beautiful."
from: "The Beauty of Ugh"
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#31. It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.
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#33. When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
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#34. As ofttimes as it rains on my little spot of earth, you'd think I'd grow accustomed to the gloom.
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#36. I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur.
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#37. You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know.
And I may do it, if I so choose.
You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh?
I shall do it, since you refuse!
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#38. No matter how hard they try, they'll never create anything so perfectly beautiful as what plays out in my own imagination.
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#39. Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end.
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#40. Don't ever give up.
Don't ever give in.
Don't ever stop trying.
Don't ever sell out.
And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
But never, ever, ever give up.
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#41. Lying is wrong. When you tell a lie for the sake of sparing someone's feelings it is not suddenly right, but it is compassionate. And is not compassion a form of love? Love - the greatest of all virtues! So, my darling, I do wrong for you. I lie that you might feel loved.
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#42. Thousands of hopeful days came to naught before this one. This was a golden day. Never give up.
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#43. Haunt an old house.
Ask for a treat.
Laugh like a witch.
Lick something sweet.
Offer a trick.
Wander a maze.
Echo a boo.
Exclaim the phrase
Normal's unnatural on Halloween!
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#44. Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.
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#46. Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.
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#48. Life is not what happens to us; it is what we perceive has happened to us.
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#49. No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.
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#50. Without you there would be no me.
I am everything reflected in your eyes.
I am everything approved by your smile.
I am everything born of your guidance.
I am me only because of you.
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#51. 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.
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#52. What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval? I'm someone. I approve. So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!
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#53. Art and the artist meet in stages, slowly revealing themselves until both are satisfied with what the other has become.
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#54. From good examples we learn how to be. From bad examples we learn how not to be. An observant and willing student can learn from any circumstance.
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#55. Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.
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#56. If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.
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#57. Courage isn't being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.
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#58. Truly, there is magic in fairytales.
For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time ... ' to allure and spellbind an audience.
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#59. Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.
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#60. The only ship you can truly steer in this ocean is the one you're sailing. Quit trying to alter the winds; harness them.
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#61. Sunshine warms us, as do smiles - which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth.
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#62. You cannot fully understand a person's need until you have endured the same need. As hard as you may try to predict and comprehend their situation and suffering, I guarantee you'll fall short until you've been there.
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#63. It is a sweet thing to have someone love you, but it is a far sweeter thing when his actions convince your heart, and his words persuade your soul.
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#64. It's easiest to give advice on trials you've stumbled through. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
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#65. Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.
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#66. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.
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#67. Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees - or seeing what he believes. Either way.
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#69. Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.
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#70. Funny thing how when you reach out, people tend to reach right back. Best, then, to make sure your hand is open and not fisted.
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#72. Often we withhold our affections, waiting first for love to be extended to us. The irony is that we are loved for loving.
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#74. Nothing remains idle and thrives. Life needs a moving force to prevent the devastating effects of stagnancy. That is why life employs change.
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#75. It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow.
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#76. When it comes to the crusty behavior of some people, give them the benefit of the doubt. They may be drowning right before your eyes, but you can't see it. And you'd never ask someone to drown with a smile on his face.
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#77. 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.
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#79. A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.
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#80. I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.
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#81. People are more inclined to ask what's wrong than what's right. They note errors and faults, seeing weaknesses before strengths. So expect criticism; it's the nature of the beast.
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#82. The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.
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#83. If we simply imagined that everyone who crossed our path was living out his or her very last day on Earth, we might treat people as kindly as we ought to each day they lived.
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#84. Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.
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#85. The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.
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#86. Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow.
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#87. I'm sorry. Oh, what simple words are these!
I'm sorry. Lips should breathe them out with ease!
But nay, in barring up the way,
"I'll die first" are the words you say.
I'm sorry, woe is all pride guarantees.
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#88. All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you. That would have changed everything.
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#89. A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
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#90. It is my belief that almost anyone can be had with breadcrumbs. For if you leave a trail of the right variety, your prey will come straight to you.
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#91. We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.
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#93. Kind words and tender affections will not save me from this lake of woe and misery, but they may be enough of a buoy to prevent my drowning.
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#94. Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.
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#95. To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the wonders of both Heaven and Earth. But she surpassed them all and, by her pleasing nature, stayed him.
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#96. I will do what I say I will do, tis the motto of all grand and worthy souls.
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#97. Lies don't fit snugly into disguises. Eventually the cloak falls off and you're left staring at the naked truth which is always an uncomfortable situation.
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#98. Let the giggles fill your mouth because nothing tastes as sweet as laughter.
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#99. Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.
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#100. Dragons are a manifestation of things we fear. More often than not, those fears prove to be just as daunting and just as imaginary.
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