Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes - Page 13

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.
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If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.
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Why must you know the details of my troubles to have compassion? Is it not enough to show compassion simply because you know that everyone has troubles?
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Kindness is still the best antidote.
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Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.
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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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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.
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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.
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What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.
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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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Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
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Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.
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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.
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Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.
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I couldn’t think of anyone I’d ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father’s angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her.tI guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.
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A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.
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Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.
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One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?
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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?
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Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all.
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Love—such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart.  Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man. 
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Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.
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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.
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Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.
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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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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.
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Don't laugh. A girl can dream.
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I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.
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When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination.
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An accumulation of pennies is a fortune. Day-to-day practice is perfection. A dream realized is nothing more than many steps taken toward the borders of once-impossible.
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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.
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The bigger the dream, the better the story.
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The trait I regard most highly in a man is kindness. Thoughtful, consistent kindness. All other qualities—whether charming, witty, handsome, enterprising, powerful, seductive, or ingenious—wither in comparison to a truly kind man.
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Don't underestimate the power of friendship. Those bonds are tight stitches that close up the holes you might otherwise fall through.
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We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.
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Life’s gonna kick you in the butt.That’s what it does. But if you gotta put up with this crap, the least you can expect is that your friends will stand by you. I mean, for crying in the night, what else are friends for but to help you make right what isn’t in life?ttt(Kira, The Mishmorat)
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Gregory?” I called. I couldn’t help myself. It was irrational, but I was scared to see him run from me. He turned my direction, his feet pivoting in the dirt. Warily, I crossed into the light for a moment.t“Do you, um…” I inhaled deeply. “Do you think you’ll still want to be my friend tomorrow?” I held my breath and waited for his answer.tAlthough I could feel the sunshine perceptibly tingle every inch of exposed skin, the way Gregory smiled at me produced a swell of warmth unmatchable even for the sun. t“I’ll always want to be your friend, Annabelle. Do you want to be mine?”tMy head nodded like mad, ecstatic, all on its own. I disappeared among the shadows again and watched my new friend until he stepped around the Hopkins’ house. Then I waited until his car drove off -- Gregory and his mother headed for home. tI was on a high like no other, but I’d not lost my grasp on reality entirely. I knew that the real test would come Monday. It was one thing to befriend an outcast in the privacy of the woods, but quite another to risk ridicule and reputation when surrounded by peers. This was true even for those with the biggest of hearts, which I now believed Gregory Hill to have.
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If your best friend truly is the person who knows you completely and loves you anyway, wouldn't that be your mother?
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Life is hard and unfair. It is cruel and heartless, painful, trying, disappointing, unapologetic, and frequently downright awful. But that's not important. What's important is that through it all you learn how much you need your Heavenly Father and how much your friends need you.
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Friendship is not about ships—no matter how big and fancy and expensive the yacht is.
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One of the most critical decisions made in life is choosing with whom to spend your time. For it is those close relationships that gradually mold our character until we become a reflection of the company we keep.
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Friends are those crazy people who keep coming back, in spite of being exposed to the real you.
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I wish everyone had someone who never popped their balloons.
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Be someone’s security blanket when theirs is in the wash.
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Dogs are loyal friends, and if they could talk, your secrets would still be safe. (If my cat could talk, I’d have to let the dog eat her.)
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To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.
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Heaven's currency is friendship.
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Friends are the artists who paint happy lips on your face.
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Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.
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I live in two unique worlds, traveling between both with just the opening or closing of my eyes.
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Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.
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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.
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If you ever expect to write fairytales, you've got to get your head in the clouds.
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If there weren’t so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud.
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My favorite words in the world are t
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What if stars were the glimmering tears of a giant, welling in his cheeks, waiting to fall at the first tender stroke of emotion? What if the moon were a wide-open eye gazing down on our tiny, little world and its tiny, little inhabitants as they rush to and fro in pursuit of tiny, little dreams? What if the sun were the glowing heart of a great beast, pumping hot blood to keep him alive while providing warmth for our pitiful world? Ahhh, imagination; it is a wondrous thing!
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An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth.
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WRITER'S NIGHTMARE""I felt a grip on my arm that shook my body, forcefully pulling me toward a tunnel of darkness.   The threat of consciousness stole my steady breath. For a moment I believed myself to be under siege; ripped from the sky in mid flight, my wings useless against the monstrous claws shredding my reality. I struggled to remain, to be left alone, aloft.  Reaching with wings that through the power of imagination were suddenly feathered arms, I grabbed at the air.  My hands clutched at something solid.  Wooden.  A desk.  My head spun as I held the furniture, suffering the illusion of falling.  "I was flying," I gasped, realizing suddenly that it had all been a dream. "My best fantasy ever." Lifting my head from its resting spot on the writing desk, I worked mentally to secure the fading images, hoping to capture their essence to memory before they faded away forever.  Bitterness tainted my heart against the hand that had jerked me into sensibility.  Why was I always so callously awakened while doing my best work?  Why not let me dream?
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Truly, there is magic in fairy
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Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day.  There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.
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