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Richelle E. Goodrich

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Richelle E. Goodrich is known for her uplifting and thought-provoking writing that blends wisdom, humor, and heartfelt reflection. Her words inspire self-discovery, resilience, and the pursuit of happiness, resonating deeply with readers seeking guidance and encouragement. The following quotes showcase her insight, optimism, and the timeless messages that make her work so empowering.

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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.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
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Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of Tartarus solely for the purpose of banding to personally torture you, and that their genuine intent of mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish is tearing you to shreds.  Your heart weighs as heavily as leaden legs which you would drag yourself forward with if not for the quicksand that pulls you down inch by inch, paralyzing your will and threatening oblivion.  And all the while fire and brimstone pour from the sky, pelting only you.  
Truly, that is what it feels like. But that feeling is a trial that won't last forever.  Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Prayer is a personal and intimate conversation between you and God. It is a time to share your biggest dreams and deepest fears. It is a time to tell God of your humble needs as well as every heartfelt desire. It is when to express great hopes and sincere gratitude.

Many times, during moments of stillness and contemplation in prayer, it is when inspiration, promptings, and insight come to your heart and mind as answers and guidance from a loving Heavenly Father.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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Topic: Hope
This is your present, not your past.
You live in the present, not the past.
What matters is the present, not the past.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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Topic: Hope
Sometimes you have to look at the sunny side of the problem. Though, you might ask, is there always a sunny side? Maybe not. Or maybe it just reveals itself a little further down the road when our perspective broadens enough to see the whole picture.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
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Topic: Hope
Hope is as important to human survival as air, food, and water. Perhaps more so.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope.
Fortitude.
Optimism.
These are dynamic superpowers.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
All you can do is start where you are.
But you can start—right here, right now.
You absolutely can.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Forcefulness is not love. Forget trying to force people into submission and instead try informing and educating as a means of gaining voluntary compliance. Never deny individual agency; it only creates resentment, defensiveness, and resistance. Education, on the other hand, creates wisdom that opens ears and hearts and minds. No one responds as favorably to demands as they do to informed requests.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval?  I'm someone.  I approve.  So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Do not be afraid to work hard. There is great joy and satisfaction to be gained in the doing and accomplishing of jobs and service.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.
From Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
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Topic: Hope
Faith is strength, courage, belief, will, hope, power, and determination all wrapped up together. Faith is the blade used to slay our doubts and fears.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What gives us hope is believing in the possibility of something. Even the slightest, minute possibility is enough to keep hope alive, and with it, our strength to hold on.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a force that keeps us going, trying, reaching, and breathing. It is a fire in the soul that, if kept burning, will sustain us against all odds.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
If you run out of options, pray for more.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
If you want to be happy tomorrow, pay close attention to your choices today. Your future happiness depends on the things you do now.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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!
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of Tartarus solely for the purpose of banding to personally torture you, and that their genuine intent of mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish is tearing you to shreds.  Your heart weighs as heavily as leaden legs which you would drag yourself forward with if not for the quicksand that pulls you down inch by inch, paralyzing your will and threatening oblivion.  And all the while fire and brimstone pour from the sky, pelting only you.  
Truly, that is what it feels like. But that feeling is a trial that won't last forever.  Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Prayer is a personal and intimate conversation between you and God. It is a time to share your biggest dreams and deepest fears. It is a time to tell God of your humble needs as well as every heartfelt desire. It is when to express great hopes and sincere gratitude.

Many times, during moments of stillness and contemplation in prayer, it is when inspiration, promptings, and insight come to your heart and mind as answers and guidance from a loving Heavenly Father.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
This is your present, not your past.
You live in the present, not the past.
What matters is the present, not the past.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Sometimes you have to look at the sunny side of the problem. Though, you might ask, is there always a sunny side? Maybe not. Or maybe it just reveals itself a little further down the road when our perspective broadens enough to see the whole picture.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is as important to human survival as air, food, and water. Perhaps more so.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope.
Fortitude.
Optimism.
These are dynamic superpowers.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
All you can do is start where you are.
But you can start—right here, right now.
You absolutely can.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Forcefulness is not love. Forget trying to force people into submission and instead try informing and educating as a means of gaining voluntary compliance. Never deny individual agency; it only creates resentment, defensiveness, and resistance. Education, on the other hand, creates wisdom that opens ears and hearts and minds. No one responds as favorably to demands as they do to informed requests.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval?  I'm someone.  I approve.  So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Do not be afraid to work hard. There is great joy and satisfaction to be gained in the doing and accomplishing of jobs and service.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.
From Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Faith is strength, courage, belief, will, hope, power, and determination all wrapped up together. Faith is the blade used to slay our doubts and fears.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What gives us hope is believing in the possibility of something. Even the slightest, minute possibility is enough to keep hope alive, and with it, our strength to hold on.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a force that keeps us going, trying, reaching, and breathing. It is a fire in the soul that, if kept burning, will sustain us against all odds.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
If you run out of options, pray for more.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
If you want to be happy tomorrow, pay close attention to your choices today. Your future happiness depends on the things you do now.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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!
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope, Inspirational
Life has moments that feel as if the sun has blackened to tar and the entire world turned to ice.  It feels as if Hades and his vile demons have risen from the depths of Tartarus solely for the purpose of banding to personally torture you, and that their genuine intent of mental, emotional, and spiritual anguish is tearing you to shreds.  Your heart weighs as heavily as leaden legs which you would drag yourself forward with if not for the quicksand that pulls you down inch by inch, paralyzing your will and threatening oblivion.  And all the while fire and brimstone pour from the sky, pelting only you.  
Truly, that is what it feels like. But that feeling is a trial that won't last forever.  Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Prayer is a personal and intimate conversation between you and God. It is a time to share your biggest dreams and deepest fears. It is a time to tell God of your humble needs as well as every heartfelt desire. It is when to express great hopes and sincere gratitude.

Many times, during moments of stillness and contemplation in prayer, it is when inspiration, promptings, and insight come to your heart and mind as answers and guidance from a loving Heavenly Father.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
This is your present, not your past.
You live in the present, not the past.
What matters is the present, not the past.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Sometimes you have to look at the sunny side of the problem. Though, you might ask, is there always a sunny side? Maybe not. Or maybe it just reveals itself a little further down the road when our perspective broadens enough to see the whole picture.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is as important to human survival as air, food, and water. Perhaps more so.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope.
Fortitude.
Optimism.
These are dynamic superpowers.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
All you can do is start where you are.
But you can start—right here, right now.
You absolutely can.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Forcefulness is not love. Forget trying to force people into submission and instead try informing and educating as a means of gaining voluntary compliance. Never deny individual agency; it only creates resentment, defensiveness, and resistance. Education, on the other hand, creates wisdom that opens ears and hearts and minds. No one responds as favorably to demands as they do to informed requests.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Education
What do you mean I have to wait for someone's approval?  I'm someone.  I approve.  So I give myself permission to move forward with my full support!
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Do not be afraid to work hard. There is great joy and satisfaction to be gained in the doing and accomplishing of jobs and service.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a liberty available to anyone.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.
From Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Though it pained me, I gave in. Why was it that I repeatedly succumbed to the first whisper of a promised maybe? How did the enticer, hope, always find my heart unguarded? There was no such thing as hope. Not for me. Why was it so hard to accept that?
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Faith is strength, courage, belief, will, hope, power, and determination all wrapped up together. Faith is the blade used to slay our doubts and fears.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
What gives us hope is believing in the possibility of something. Even the slightest, minute possibility is enough to keep hope alive, and with it, our strength to hold on.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
Hope is a force that keeps us going, trying, reaching, and breathing. It is a fire in the soul that, if kept burning, will sustain us against all odds.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
If you run out of options, pray for more.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam!― they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent.
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Relationships
What you perceive as a failure today may actually be a crucial step towards the success you seek. Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Success
If you want to be happy tomorrow, pay close attention to your choices today. Your future happiness depends on the things you do now.
From Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Happiness
Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.
From Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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!
From Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Hope
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