Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons Quotes
To obtain wealth beyond measure, seek to make more friends than money.
Of all the magic words in existence, words of kindness create the greatest transformation spells.
What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.
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.
Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.
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.
Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.
The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity.
The Christmas spirit is simply an honest spirit of love for all humanity. It is the force that moves us to give what we can, to help as we are able, and to always be of kind comfort.
Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold.
Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness.
You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand.
I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness.
Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.
Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
When you love someone, you don’t care that she ate your sandwich. You only hope she found it delicious.
People think kindness is a soft, weak, submissive influence when in reality it is the most potent, persuasive force in existence.
The horses have stoppedtheir clippity-clop, but feet are too slowfor where I must go.So here I shall stayuntil light of daywhen clippity-clopgets my team underway.
A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries.
Perfection may be an island out of reach, but setting your sails toward it makes for a magnificent voyage.
To get it doneand see it thru, find less to sayand more to do.
Understand that great accomplishments require great effort. If a goal is achieved without effort, it is no accomplishment but a mere happening.
Some days I feel like my worth is being reevaluated every five minutes.
Most are unaware of their tremendous worth and boundless potential, despite possessing both.
It's easy to offer advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone’s path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.
It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown.
It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
Silly little monster” all would say.They’d scratch its head and turn awayuntil it snatched their tiny noses.They couldn’t even smell the roses!Ever after, every childdreaded monsters, fierce or mild.
You tell me that yes, I can do it. I know. And I may do it, if I so choose.You tell me that no, I cannot. I say, Oh? I shall do it, since you refuse!
Sipping teawith gleebeneath a gooseberry tree.I wish Alice were here.Oh, my dear, do not fear, she will be.
You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true.
If you never bother to say the words, why should anyone believe you ever felt them?
Hatred is prevalent on this earth because it requires no real effort, unlike the investment it takes to genuinely understand a person.
A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.
It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.
The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable.
Have you ever noticed how the most intriguing individual in the room seems content to listen sooner than speak?
If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.
Isn’t it strange how a lamb can feel like a lion when comparing itself to a mouse, whereas a lion feels like a lamb when measuring itself against dragons?
Find much to be grateful for in every day. Doing so will not only enrich your life, it will bless those around you in ways you may never know.
Gratitude possesses all the energy of a sunbeam. That is how it makes life blossom.
Night helps us appreciate daylight, while lengthy days make us yearn for a good stretch of night.