Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway Quotes

I had the most beautiful dream, and then I fell asleep in your arms and my dream turned lovelier still.

Don't laugh. A girl can dream.

Laughter is magic that dispenses clouds and creates sunshine in the soul.

Love—such a keen mystery prone to pierce and shatter the delicate heart.  Yet it possesses more strength, power, and influence than any other magic known to man.

Walk with me for a while, my friend—you in my shoes, I in yours—and then let us talk.

A single act of kindness is like a drop of oil on a patch of dry skin—seeping, spreading, and affecting more than the original need.

If only this great concern we have for our own sensitive feelings expanded to encompass the feelings of our fellow men.

Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.

I could really use someone else's smile today.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

Be nice. And if you can't do that, just don't be mean.

Love is not complicated—just smile, hug, kiss, be kind, and repeat.

You may not know my reasons, but you can assume I have them and be kind.

When you tend to another's dying embers, you find both warmth and an increase in the glow of your own fire.

We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.

I believe in love―a kind, selfless, unending devotion. I believe it is rare.

Act like you care. Pray like you care. Speak, smile, reach out, and live like you care.  The point is to make sure those in your life know beyond doubt that you do care.

The glory of fame isn't in having so many people know you, but in having so many people know you care. Otherwise, it's like being drawn to a fire to find no warmth.

Thoughts, quotes, and philosophies—good or bad—cause us to evaluate ourselves. And that is good.

Disappointment is really just a term for our refusal to look on the bright side.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

The key to success is having no qualms about failure.

It has never been my goal to impress anyone but myself. That has proven challenging enough.

Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.

Trying to change old habits is like fighting a war in your head—a draining and exhausting skirmish that makes you wonder at your chance of survival.

Knowing the path through the forest doesn't make the trip any less daunting. Knowing the steps to your dreams doesn't make the climb any less of a challenge.

The reason people fail to reach their goals is because they give up too early. They don't understand that most successes are built upon foundations of multiple attempts.

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

The real achievers are those who, in the dreary pit of sacrifice, still smile up at the goal.

Knowing the path to follow doesn't make it a breeze to step along. If every desire were only a skip, hop, and a jump away, we'd all have arrived.

Remember this—the journey is part of the dream.  Whatever it is you're chasing, so long as you are actively moving in the right direction, the dream is coming true.

Between here and there is a journey illuminated by the rising and setting of a radiant sun. Don't miss its splendor in your all-fired hurry to cross the finish line.

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise.

It is a pleasurable thing to earn the admiration of others, but it is a far better feeling to honestly admire thyself.

It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.

Are you what others say and think you are?  Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

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.

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again.

Many times what we perceive as an error or failure is actually a gift. And eventually we find that lessons learned from that discouraging experience prove to be of great worth.

Since when is failure more appealing? Never give up.

Mystery, why so attractive to me?You blind me with fear, place hope on my tongue, and with a cold kiss draw me forward. Wary and trembling, I follow.

It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.

Gratitude is medicine for a heart devastated by tragedy.  If you can only be thankful for the blue sky, then do so.

Evil exists in this world because it has its place. For had you never sat blindly through the darkness of night, your eyes wouldn't turn toward the sunrise to appreciate its warmth and illumination.

Evil might not prevail in the end, but it certainly doesn't fail to devastate in its time.

No matter how many lies you use to disguise it or how many excuses you bury it beneath, the truth will never cease to be true.

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew?

Happiness is feeling confident that the god of this universe is pleased with the things you say and do.

You are the one star I wish upon nightly, praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.

Prove that you love me through a lingering gaze and never losing that twinkle of adoration in your eyes.