1,627 Quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

To be a rainbow in someone’s cloud is commendable, but I prefer to be the rain because it dampens cheeks and washes away tears.

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