Quotes about richelle-e-goodrich

Look down the road I’m traveling and you will see my goal it’s there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way.

Guilt cannot change you it can only hint that there’s something worth your effort to change.

Every book is its own black hole. Don’t fight the pull find out where it takes you.

Your opponent's wrong doesn't automatically make you right. Most fights aren't about who's right they are contention over degrees of wrongness.

Some people do not like you that’s a given. So what?

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.

You are mistaken he is not a gentleman but a sir. Just a sir. For a gentleman is grander and a rare acquaintance.

There are many pitfalls in life one is dwelling on blame. It’s pointless. Move on.

We change when circumstances necessitate it we adapt because we have to. The real challenge is to change when circumstances don’t demand it at all.

Stand tall on the summit after a tedious climb. Take in the remarkable scenery and the exhilaration of accomplishment. But don't pause for long there are greater mountains to climb while you still possess the drive and capacity to do so.

I can overlook the lie what's harder to ignore is the grotesque way it has marred your character.

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

Your life is not a simulation it's the real game. Play wisely.

Beware of giggle grins they are highly contagious.

I love happy people they’re like smile magnets.

I don't doubt that you think you love me what I doubt is your understanding of love.

Life is not what happens to us it is what we perceive has happened to us.

It’s a difficult thing having a heart made of glass people don’t seem to realize how easily it shatters. How often I’ve swept up the pieces and carefully glued them back together.

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

Discouragement is like a scorpion in your shoe it takes courage to toss it out so you can move on.

Some things can't be taught they can only be discovered.

People are drawn to you because you make them feel happy I understand that. But wouldn't it be nice to have people flock to you wishing for your happiness?

Kind words are salve to a cankered soul spread generously.

Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.

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Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.

I opened my eyes today to a world that felt alien. For though things resembled the familiar, nothing was the same. Walls I once considered confining, crumbled at the slightest shove. Mountains that for ages had barred my view now faded, transparent. Meandering roads stretched out as straight as an arrow, void of stop signs. Obstacles no longer stood stationary. Pinnacles loomed within reach. Beasts were tame, bullies timid, wagging tongues all tied into knots, and in the palm of my hand glistene

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life.

My goals may seem impossibly far-fetched when really they're not.  Break them down into steps and see how I accomplish great things.  I can easily reach from A to B.  I can manage from B to C. I can then make it from C to D.  And so eventually, I will find my way from A to Z.

Having this, we want that.Owning some, we want more.Standing here, we wish to be there.If it's impossible, we struggle to make it happen.Why are we like this? Why not be content with some, here, and now? Why is enough not enough? Because humans are ambitious creatures not meant to be idle or fruitless. We strive to learn, to grow, to achieve, to amass; therefore, we will never be content.

Don't give up.I know you've made a thousand attempts to reach your goal, but look at it this way: after repeatedly banging your head against the wall, you ought to be numb enough break through this time.

If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.

Today is a BRAND NEW day—a perfectly good reason to get up and start over. Never give up.

The key to success―keep swimming. Even when they tap you on the shoulder to say the pool has been drained, just keep swimming.

Raging fires grow from the tiniest spark; it is the same principle at work in life. As long as there's a spark, tend to your fire. Never give up. 

To get it doneand see it thru,find less to sayand more to do.

They say if you're a better person today than you were yesterday you're well on the road to perfection. So I figure if I'm a real snot today, tomorrow I should make huge progress.

A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries.

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.

Small steps may appear unimpressive, but don't be deceived. They are the means by which perspectives are subtly altered, mountains are gradually scaled, and lives are drastically changed.

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

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.

Missing someone is the reverberating echo of everything beautiful about her—her laugh, her song, her touch, her smell, the power of her words, and the constant shadow that lingers on as her perfect image in your memory.

Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!

Kindness is a girl's best friend.

The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity.

The Christmas spirit is simply an honest spirit of love for all humanity. It is the force that moves us to give what we can, to help as we are able, and to always be of kind comfort.

So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.

If kindness is beauty, patience is disarming elegance.

People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.

At times we feel outnumbered in our attempts to improve the world—to brighten and beautify, to preserve and heal and do what’s best for humanity. Selfless efforts can start to feel beleaguering, discouraging, even pointless with so little support. It is at these times I remind myself that I would rather be the last Good Samaritan standing than to join the ranks of selfish multitudes creating misery.

There are hundreds of reasons to be kind, but only one that matters—because it’s who you are.

Teddy bears, not grizzly bears, get invited in for honey.

If people were kinder, the world might cease weeping.

Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.

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.

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.

Happiness branches from the tree of kindness, abounding with the fruit of sweet smiles.

So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel.

Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.

You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.

I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.

Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so.

As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up.

Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.

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

The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.

If you've put a smile on someone's face today, you've done more good than you know.

Kindness is my weapon of choice. My second is a Semmian da

Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.

Love is many kind acts accumulated over time that leave us feeling wonderful.

Don't seek to be happy; let everyone else chase after that rainbow. Seek to be kind, and you'll find the rainbow follows you.

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.

What is the right tool, the best option, the choicest gift,the winning hand, the greatest relief, the finest revenge, the sweetest drink, the perfect response, the working solution, the strongest medi

The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop,but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway.

Changing your attitude, your outlook, your mindset, perspective, disposition, or mood—they all mean controlling where you allow your thoughts to linger.

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God’s redemption to the world.

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

What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

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.

Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.

Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.

I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

The greatest gift you can give is your time.  Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time.  People need your presence.  The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

Kindness is still the best antidote.

Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all.

Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?

Your problem is in thinking the sky's the limit. Why set limits?

A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?

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.

Believing in yourself means more than simply believing in your own ultimate success; it means believing you will survive failures, disappointments, rejections, and criticism but still persist.

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