Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes - Page 8

Someone described a writer's world as tormented, and I had to laugh.  A tormented writer?  I personally wouldn't have put those two words together.  Emotions have the power to torment a soul, yes, I agree to that.  But writers, through the formation of our characters, delve so often into the depths of a vast range of emotions that we earn the advantage.  For we've examined every little thrumming, fracture, spark, pang, and darkening of the heart to a point that we understand and appreciate the necessity and strength of emotions as well as the cause and effects manipulating them.  We understand.  We can imagine.  We sympathize.  Our knowledge is power over the torment of emotional ignorance.  I would suggest that those truly tormented are the readers of our works because those poor souls shall never know with such clarity and sentiment all the tiny little details that make our characters breath, move, and live before our very eyes.  Perhaps, if torment does lurk among writers, it comes simply through knowing more about an imagined friend than can ever be adequately expressed in words.
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When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.
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I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.
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I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience.
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Twitter is a serious writing distraction. As are grapefruits. The two have nothing else in common.
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I read so I might live a thousand lives in a lifetime. I write to control the particulars in those lives.
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Sometimes when I prepare to write, I feel the same sensation wash over me as if my toes were curling over the brink of a high cliff, my gaze peering downward into a dark pond, and I anxiously wonder, will the water prove deep enough? Will my words be satisfactory?
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I might be tempted to socialize more if the conversations taking place around me were half as interesting as the dialogue going on inside my head.
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A writer writesregardless...even though...notwithstanding...despite...at any rate...anyhow...nevertheless...in the face of...undeterred by...heedless of...and because.The true writer simply continues to write.
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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.
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Pride is not your friend. He would have you think he is, that he affords you strength and courage, but in truth he robs you of your health and by slow, diluted degrees steals your might. He is a crafty and cunning liar who would have you think that stubborn, unapologetic, superior, boastful, and popular are admirable traits. Pride would convince you that being right is more crucial than being kind. He would have you sever relationships, even turn your back on family and friends rather than utter a humble apology. To do so is beneath you, pride would say. He would have you fight like a raptor and gnash your teeth while jutting out an inflexible jaw to defend and protect him, regardless of who is hurt in the process. He would use and demean you in order to puff up and fortify himself. He would destroy your life and every meaningful association before casting you aside without a hint of remorse. Again, Pride is not your friend.
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A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.
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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.
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To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.
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The communication block between men and
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Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.
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Barking at people earns their respect about as effectively as staring into the sun improves your vision.
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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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Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.
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The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.
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Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.
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I can't force your lips to smile, but I can show them how easily mine do.
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The happiest adults are those who never buried old toys or abandoned imaginary friends.
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Happiness has two hands: one with strength for lifting up heavy hearts and a gentle hand for tickling.
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There are those who fear the sunset, worried they will never see light again. There are those who ignore the sunrise, squandering dawn, believing they will never run out of daylight. And then there are those who have learned to live in the sun's warmth, gauging time by its positions, thankful at night that the day happened. Be aware of time. Use it wisely. Be thankful for the light allotted.
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Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious—every portion of you recognizes home.  That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy.
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The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.
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Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.
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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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Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.
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Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.)—Pray; discuss your troubles with God.—List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)—Call your mom.—Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.—Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent.
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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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Personal problems appear big because we press our nose to the glass to observe them. This only serves to magnify our troubles. The problems of others we tend to view at a reasonable distance from the window, making their woes and bothers appear ordinary. Too bad we don't naturally take a few steps back before considering our own plight.
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I don't understand why when I wish for happiness it inevitably rains. However, I do tend to find myself grateful for sunlight once the storm ceases.
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Patience is seeing each step as a journey rather than seeing a journey as a thousand steps.
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Sometimes a problem isn’t really a problem but the solution in disguise.
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It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.
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There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.
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Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.
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Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.
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I love snowflakes simply for the reason that each one is unique—nonidentical to zillions of crystalized counterparts.  It's a difficult notion to wrap your brain around, and yet it reminds me that amidst the innumerable stories told throughout the ages, a distinctly new one rests on the tip of an author's pen.
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A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.
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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.
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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.
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To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.
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I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.
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Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.
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Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.
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You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect.
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Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty.
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The humanitarian is a treasure hunter seeking gems of remedy and appreciation.
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Have the wisdom to perceive all there is to be thankful for, and then be thankful for the wisdom to perceive things so clearly.
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Oh what marvels fill me with thanksgiving!The deep mahogany of a leaf once green. The feathered fronds of tiny icicles coating every twig and branch in a wintry landscape. The feel of goosebumps thawing after endured frozen temperatures. Both hands clamped around a hot mug of herbal tea. The aromatic whiff of mint under my nose. The stir of emotion from a child's cry for mommy. A gift of love detached of strings. Spotted lilies collecting raindrops in a cupped clump of petals. The vibrant mélange of colors on butterfly wings. The milky luster of a single pearl. Rainbows reflecting off iridescence bubbles. Awe-struck silence evoked by any form of beauty.Avocado flecks in your eyes.Warm hands on my face.Sweetness on the tongue.The harmony of voices.An answered prayer.A pink balloon.A caress.A smile.More.These have become my treasures by virtue of thanksgiving.
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Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.
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It is easy to say I am thankful for the sweet and beautiful things in life: flower gardens, ice cream cones, diamond rings, dances under moonlight, children’s laughter, birdsongs, and the like. The challenge is recognizing things of value in the dark, sour, uglier parts of life. But if you look hard enough, you will find that even tough times offer pearls worthy of gratitude.
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Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.
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Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.
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Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.
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Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world.  Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize.
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Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.
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