Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons Quotes
Rather than critique people, try admiring God’s creative handiwork.
Patience isn’t simply waiting, it is caring enough about the situation and those involved to remain calm and courteous throughout the wait.
Extraordinary power exists in a trial of patience. Few endure their trials well enough to discover this.
Progressing at a snail’s pace is still progress, and slow progress is better than no progress. Never be stagnant, and never give up.
When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.
It may seem like the dragons tormenting you are bigger and fiercer than those lurking in your neighbor’s yard, but this is an illusion. We all face mighty dragons at home in some form.
Sunshine warms us, as do smiles—which makes me think that smiles are sunbeams reflected off our teeth.
It’s simply this:the Irish kiss, a snog o’ bliss, be blessed luckfrom any miss.
The wind is made of haunting souls that moan and groan in whistles and whispers. This ghostly choir chills the breeze and orchestrates a rise of goose bumps on my skin.
Be sure to wear greenon March seventeen, or else Irish leprechauns pinch your bones clean!
I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life’s dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained.
When I ask you to be my valentine, I’m not asking you to love me. I’m simply asking you to accept tokens of my love for you.
To believe in yourself is to light a spark with the potential to start a fire.
You can do things. Do you know this?Do you believe it?You should.It’s true.You can do great things.
Too often we let others stamp a price tag on us, and we accept their appraisal of our worth, forgetting we are in fact priceless.
The spirit of Christmas exists in harmonious carols like those sung by angels on the day of Christ’s birth.
Treats and tricks.Witch broomsticks.Jack-o-lanternsLick their lips.Crows and cats.Vampire bats.Capes and fangsAnd pointed hats.Werewolves howl.Phantoms prowl.Halloween’s Upon us now.
You breathe.You feel.You seeand hearand smelland tasteand thinkand moveand laughand weepand healand danceand singand love.Thank your mother.
Anyone who takes the time to listen is either an old soul or a romantic one.
A pumpkin lives but once a year when someone sets its soul afire and on that night it stirs up fear until its flame is snuffed.But e'en one night of eerie light is fright enough.
The coldest day in fallis at the Hallows Evening ballwhere ghoulish funavoids the sunas monsters mingle wall to wall.
I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak.
A smile is a light that sets your inner self aglow, letting others know you’re home.
A Halloween flower, if ever there was one, would smell like an onion, have thorns like a rose.With charcoal black petalsand vines that entangle, t'would grow under moonlightin mud, I suppose.
One day a week I seek to rest from earthly toil and sorrow.Revitalized, I find the strength to battle new tomorrows.
If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.
Love in its essence is unconditional. When conditions, exceptions, and ultimatums are cast into the mix, its purity changes. It is no longer love and should be referred to by a less-desirable name.
When you understand that faith is God’s muscle at your disposal, moving mountains doesn’t seem so extraordinary.
How easy it is to slip.How hard it is to climb.How wise it is to keep in stepAnd never fall behind.
Sometimes the craziest laugh in the world is the only one that will save your sanity.
If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.
There are tomorrows on their way worth the struggles of today. Never give up.
Snowflakes fall from high.Flurries lift and twirl below.The world has turned white.
Glittering tinsel, lights, glass balls, and candy canesdangle from pine trees.
New light in the skyannounces a sacred birth.Shine brightly young star.
The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle.
I am not what you see.I am what time and effort and interaction slowly unveil.
When there is not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have.
Stubbornness is surely just taut-jawed, clenched-fisted madness.
In my lifetime I have witnessed far too many miracles to believe in impossibilities, and so I am officially modifying the defini