Richelle E. Goodrich Quotes: 21

• Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.

  Eena, The Tempter's Snare

• You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• Courage to me is doing something daring, no matter how afraid, insecure, intimidated, alone, unworthy, incapable, ridiculed or whatever other paralyzing emotion you might feel. Courage is taking action.....no matter what. So you're afraid? Be afraid. Be scared silly to the point you're trembling and nauseous, but do it anyway!

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either. There's both sweet and sour in every day. So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful? Concentrate on the good.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historical—a gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mystery—a challenging, bold adventure. Make life heartfelt—an enduring, poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world, live the fairytale.

  Eena, The Return of a Queen

• In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love.

  Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

• I love words. I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail. I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum. I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over. In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page.

• It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my dreams you cannot touch. They are my will―the very essence of who I am. In them I laugh. In them I cry. In them I love. And in them.....I live.My dreams are untouchable and unceasing.

  Eena, The Dawn and Rescue

• Imagine in vibrant, wonderful detail your heart’s desire—a reality only you can envision, an adventure only you can direct.Then cradle your creation. Caress it. Mold it. Coddle it until it comes to life.And when your precious treasure grows so grand as to steal your breath away, set it free for all the world to experience. For that is how you live your dreams.

  Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave

• Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

• A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity.

  Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year

• Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.

• I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!

  Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher

• No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot.

  Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year