Richelle E. Goodrich quotes:

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  • Dear God,I hurt. Please hold me.Amen

  • Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening; actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word.

  • Twinkle tiny star.Oh, how great you truly are!God's sign from afar.

  • Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision.

  • 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.

  • Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

  • You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.

  • 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.

  • Be true to the writer within you; tell the story you're dying to tell in exactly the way you wish to tell it, and don't trust anyone who tries to sway you otherwise.

  • A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

  • Our greatest duty to our children is to love them first. Secondly, it is to teach them. Not to frighten, force, or intimidate our children into submission, but to effectively teach them so that they have the knowledge and tools to govern themselves.

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

  • The greatest lessons I learned from my father didn't come from lectures or discipline or even time spent together. What has stuck with me is his example. From watching, I chose whether to be or not to be like him.

  • Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

  • I have always felt that fear possesses such great power, enough to paralyze and quake an individual. Pondering this, I realized that the source of fear's power comes from within me. So, I ask myself, does that not make me the powerful one?

  • Do we ignore the needyto spite the greedy?Or share and defenddespite those who pretend?

  • A new star, the Christ child, God's gift to mankind; these are what Christmas is made of.

  • Be happy. Be happy for no reason at all. Believe it or not, you have the ability and free agency to make that choice.

  • The bigger the dream, the better the story.

  • In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

  • Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy. If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

  • You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.

  • When we all pass from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have is his own story to tell.

  • Truly, there is magic in fairytales.For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time' to allure and spellbind an audience.

  • It's mind-boggling how many different worlds people live in on this one planet.

  • Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

  • Just knowing you're not alone is often enough to kindle hope amid tragic circumstances.

  • If you truly wish to change what is without, you must first change what festers within.

  • People will insist on building high and wide barriers directly in your path, often with the intent of closing you in. If you treat these obstacles like fencing walls, they will prove mightily so. I choose to see them as grand towers meant to be scaled and conquered, providing an added victory as well as a great view of the journey ahead.

  • It's easiest to give advice on trials you've stumbled through. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.

  • It's advice, not a commandment.Don't swallow it whole until you're absolutely sure you've been given good, healthy advice.

  • It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

  • A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

  • Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.

  • It seems my heart is made of tissue paper; I wish the world would handle it more delicately.

  • 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.

  • You need tell me nothing; I already know your heart. Through your simplest choices you've given yourself away.

  • Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open.from The Beauty of Ugh

  • Love is years of devotion, sacrifice, commitment, loyalty, trust, faith, and friendship all wrapped up in one. True love does more than cause your heart to flutter. It upholds your heart when the infatuation no longer makes it flutter.

  • Life is a love story, with every character yearning for permanent refuge in someone's heart.

  • Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third.

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

  • Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn't understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory's uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial.

  • When I say I love the silence, I'm not being entirely truthful. What I actually love are the abundant, delicate sounds that amplify when I am silent. These curious creaks, mutters, and hums compel my imagination.

  • Because gray clouds hang heavy with misery, blue skies seem bluer.

  • Happiness, thou art naught but an illusion. Thy enchantments are cast upon my eyes, my mind, my spellbound heart. Dependent upon nothing but thy victim's perception of thee, souls soar at thy artful hand! I have fallen in love with thy illusions, Happiness. Thou hast made me a part of them, and I am left delirious.

  • Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it."

  • Wanting help, I reached out to serve. Seeking happiness, I smiled and offered comfort. Yearning for love, I showed love. And now I understand. My life was never about me, it was always about you."

  • Mothers give us life, love, and the heartfelt inclination to cry, 'I want my mommy,' no matter how old we get."

  • My life has become a dismal sigh fettered by pangs of grief and anguished weeping."

  • In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."

  • To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently?charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim."

  • Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.

  • What a grim feeling it is to come across a written line so exceptionally inspiring that your first reaction is, 'Criminy, why didn't I ever think to write that!'

  • Live your day and live it well. It's yours whether you want it or not.

  • 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.

  • This day is the most recent set of events to define you. Every day changes your life. Every last one.

  • Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists. It is a dangerously false illusion.

  • 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!

  • You are here to make a difference, to either improve the world or worsen it. And whether or not you consciously choose to, you will accomplish one or the other.

  • Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound lov

  • Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.

  • The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

  • A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.

  • You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.

  • Trust in the silent doers. It is far more difficult to put your dreams into action than into flowery words.

  • Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world.

  • Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.

  • How insane we are as humans when having received a nasty offense we return the same awful offense. If given an apple found to be rotten and wormy, would we not toss it aside rather than force a soul to eat it? Offenses should be discarded, not returned.

  • When you open your mouth, listeners are offended. When you close your mouth, the expectant are offended. If a person seeks misdoing from you they will find it regardless of whether or not you deliver.

  • An unbridled imagination is the fountain of youth; it's what keeps us young at heart.

  • Some books mirror reality while others are entirely fantasy. My favorite are those that manage to weave both into a world.

  • Reality and fantasy are not two separate spheres but one whole. They are like a world's atmospher

  • I survive on moments of make-believe happiness.

  • Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

  • Don't ever quit pretending.

  • I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.

  • A good dose of fantasy is exercise for your sensibilities; it keeps your avatar strong.

  • I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.

  • Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

  • We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right thing

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

  • It is a difficult thin

  • Some decisions in life naturally lead to an unhappy ending, leaving you sinking by degrees in a lake of quicksand. And, unless someone reaches to pull you out, chances are you will drown in the consequences.

  • Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?

  • What I learn today I shall know forever. Whether or not I remember that I know it is a different story.

  • Sometimes ideas flow from my mind in a raging river of stringed sentences; I can scarcely scribble on the page fast enough to keep up with the mental current. Sometimes, however, beavers move in and dam the whole thing up.

  • A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.

  • We always feel the brunt of the blow dealt to us, but hardly ever do we feel the impact we have on others. Why is that?

  • The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

  • Dreams aren't finish lines to be reached at the close of a race. They don't suddenly materialize, fulfilled, where the road ends. The entire journey is included in the drea

  • Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

  • Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

  • Laughing in the face of danger doesn't negate the fear, it simply enables you to smile at it.

  • Mad fearlessness is not courage. The only requirement for courage is a good heart.

  • 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.

  • Home is where 'I know you', 'I accept you', 'I forgive you', and 'I love you' are most likely to be heard.

  • To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presentl

  • 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.

  • When thunderstorms roll in, you make a choice to either succumb with tears to the gloomy downpour, or smile and look for rainbows.

  • Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.

  • Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

  • It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

  • When a person boldly declares, 'You can't,' he might as well add on, 'Can you?', knowing that this spoken roadblock only serves to fuel a challenge in naturally stubborn souls.

  • I am more and more convinced that some people are put in our lives solely to try our patience and tamper with our tolerance levels.

  • There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.

  • Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storm

  • Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

  • I've figured out why they call it a trial. Because you try all you can to pull through it.

  • Is anything truly impossible? Or is it that the path to our goals appears too unclear to follow? It seems to me that if you seek hard enough, pray hard enough, you usually stumble across a scattering of breadcrumbs that marks the trail leading to the goal you once considered beyond your reach.

  • Brazen it out! Throw away the scabbard! Grit your teeth, buckle down, and die with your boots on! Or in other words, be determined and resolved until you accomplish the thing you set out to accomplish.

  • It is darkness that reveals the brightest stars and most ardent wishes.

  • Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awfu

  • It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.

  • 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.

  • One grateful thought is a ray of sunshine. A hundred such thoughts paint a sunrise. A thousand will rival the glaring sky at noonday - for gratitude is light against the darkness.

  • Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.

  • I scared a little porcupineand caught a quill in my behind.It hurt so badly in my tail,but tugging on it made me yell.The porcupine was still around,so I complained. He simply frownedand said, "Stop whining! Look and seehow many quills are stuck on me!

  • Determined, I riseand face the dawn with resolve.This time I will win.

  • The sweetest melody that playson starry nights and wintry days,most soothing to my listening earsand calming to beleaguering fears,I call a symphony on ai

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