1,627 Quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich

Dress the part! Invent and pretend to your heart’s content! Act, sing, and dance while everyone’s watching! The world’s a stage, remember?

The ultimate feast! Turkey, dressing, pies, memories.Laughter carries over squabbles and fleeting tears.Game time, go! Heightened adrenaline; increased appetites. Oh, the parade! Marching bands, floats and giant balloons.Stuff the turkey, stuff your tummies! Eat up, eat more!Thanksgiving joys shared with beloved family and friends.

You will never have enough until you are grateful for what you have.

Let gratitude saturate your heart for every good thing, both great and small, and then endure—oh, steadfastly endure—all else that remains.

Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn't to open your eyes but to open your heart.

There are far too many silent sufferers.  Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.

Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice when the sky is blue.  I smile down at children.  I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor.  I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own.  And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't.  I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

To love is to accept a soul entirely, not wishing that the person was otherwise, nor hoping for change, nor clinging to some ideal past. To love is to cherish the individual standing before you presently―charms, quirks, and all. To love is to give someone a piece of your heart that you will never, ever reclaim.