Richelle E Goodrich Quotes - Page 8

An inexhaustible imagination is the fountain of youth.

Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, after the storm, when the tears have run dry and my eyes choose to open, I will look for your rainbow of hope.

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There would be no cloud-nine days without rock-bottom moments left below.

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There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

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Happiness found me alone one day and took me by the hand.He showed me how the sun gave out its warmth across the land.Sadness found me content and smiling upward at the sun.He talked of droughts and blindness and what burning rays had done.Happiness found me alone again and pointed to the sky.He showed me how the storms created rainbows way up high.Sadness found me intrigued and took me to the rainbow’s end.He showed me how it disappeared to ne’er return again.Happiness found me alone and taught me how to sing a song.He sang a dozen melodies as I chirped right along.Sadness found me singing out and covered up his ears.He said the noise was deafening, and wished he couldn’t hear.Happiness found me alone and gave me seven coins of gold.He showed me many fancy things that merchants often sold.Sadness found me admiring the pretty things I’d bought.He pointed out my empty purse and money I had not.Happiness found me alone and helped me talk to someone new.He called the boy my friend and said that I was his friend too.Sadness found me together with my kind, attentive friend.He whispered of betrayal and how broken hearts don’t mend.Happiness found me alone and held me tight in his embrace.He whispered kindness in my ear and kissed me on the face.Sadness found me with Happiness but before he spoke at all,I told him he’d have better luck at talking to the wall.

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Every heart has a layer of sadness, whether deeply buried or covering the surface for all to see.

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Sadness is like sandpaper; it rubs at our sharper edges, softening and humbling us, making us ready for a coat of compassion.

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My pain builds like storm clouds―massive, dark, and heavy with teardrops. Moisture falls torrential as if my world is a violent, eternal downpour; however, at long last the source runs dry and the bitter storm does cease. Blue skies dare to glow where the gloom has dissipated. I breathe it in, hoping to cleanse my inner soul. A laden heart tells me the truth: the clear sky is an illusion. Old pain rushes back like a flood, providing means for clouds to form and expand once again until it is too much to bear and the heaviness turns to rain. I cannot find refuge from this woe. It is my never-ending heartache.

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Sometimes all you can do is hug a friend tightly and wish that their pain could be transferred by touch to your own emotional hard drive.

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Raindrops fall from clouds of gray.The fragile flowers grow.Teardrops seem all I can say.They speak of endless woe.Your fingers wipe my grief away.A seed of love you sow.A hardened heart reverts to clay.You mold my love just so.

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A word of consolation may sweetly touch the ear.Now and then a quiet songwill clear the mind of fear.A simple act of kindnesscan ease a load of care.Stories told in memorydiminish all despair.A whispered prayer of comfortdraws angel arms around.Counting blessings, great and small,helps gratitude abound.These acts, all sympathetic,will kindly play their part.But seldom do they dry the tearsshed mutely in the heart.

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The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.

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It is a difficult thing―if not impossible―to forgive oneself for foolish errors, not for trampling a life or goring another with sharp horns, but for being the fool who opened the gate and let the bull out, blind to potential consequences.

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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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We all suffer ills at the hands of others; however, reactions to these injustices differ like night and day. Many seek to punish the world for their suffering, while some work hard to save the world from experiencing similar grief.

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Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.

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It is a fight to let go of a past that refuses to withdraw its sticky tentacles from your present.

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

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A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

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Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.

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

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You stand a better chance of bringing pretend to life through the power of belief than you stand any chance of erasing what's real by refusing to believe.

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Hope is the fuel within all human souls.Eliminate hope—nothing moves, nothing grows.

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You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.

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Something wonderful is about to happen, and something awful is about to happen. You can dwell on either one. It’s your choice.

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As a writer, I see the saga of your life in a single glimpse. It may be inaccurate, but my version doesn't lack for creativity.

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Trying to fix the shortcoming of others while ignoring your own flaws results in little if no improvement―not to mention bitter feelings. Concentrating on personal growth sets a good example and results in the improvement of one life if not more.

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Those things that inspire, enthuse, and compel you should consume your life.

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We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

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I hang around kids so people will assume when I act like one it's because I'm babysitting.

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

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Validate my existence with your words and I will speak to you all the day long.

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Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.

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I may deserve your disappointment as well as a lecture and strict discipline, but what I need is your understanding, your guidance, and your unconditional love.

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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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Mind what you say, but mind more closely what you do. For though children close their ears to you, their eyes remain wide open.

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Children rarely follow parental advice unless it is acted out repeatedly. It’s called being an example.

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I am but the reflection in your eyes, the effect of your expressions, and the sum of your praise and criticism.

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We forget that the sweetest joys are found in the simplest acts: hugs, laughter, quiet observation, basic movements, holding hands, pleasant music, shared stories, a listening ear, an unhurried visit, and selfless service. It is sad we forget a truth so elementary.

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There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service. So lift up your eyes. Refuse to be unhappy.

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The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

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Giddy is a grin and giggles and that glint of goofiness in your gaze.

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Happiness must be a jealous pet. When you try seeking yours out, it tends to keep hidden. But as soon as you turn to help a friend find his, your own happiness comes bounding out of the darkness like some crazed animal.

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Imagined happiness is still happiness.

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Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.

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The secret to happiness is elusive because it is a paradoxical truth. To gain happiness, you must first cease pursuing it. Things perceived to provide happiness are like shiny, pretty bubbles that lure us this way and that way, chasing after their glossy buoyancy. But once they are handled, they “pop”—empty—vanishing along with the hope that happiness could ever be captured. Happiness cannot be caught or won or purchased or even handled. Happiness simply forms like a rainbow in the kindest and most grateful hearts.

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I can and will improve the world.I will smile, show kindness, and be grateful.I refuse to be unhappy.

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

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Dreams become reality once the dreamer goes beyond imagining and acts them out.

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Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

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Reality is a background so painted over by our own perceptions that every eye sees the world differently.

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Reality depends a great deal upon one believing what he sees—or seeing what he believes. Either way.

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The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

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Courage doesn’t defeat fear or erase fear or adjust to fear. Courage acts, plain and simple, in the midst of fear.

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

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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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It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul. Forgiveness isn't weakness.It is power.

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Never give up.This applies to more than goals and dreams, it is a maxim for basic daily struggles. It shapes one's life, including the will to continue to live. It supports love and committed relationships; it bolsters hope, faith, and charity; it is power in every area of existence. Never give up on anything or anyone of any worth, especially yourself.

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It is the image of physical brawn, sheer force, and commanding volume we so often associate with might. But I have found the might of an army exists in the faith of a child and in quiet, earnest prayers as well as in the heart of one who loves.

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