Richelle Quotes

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

Only a fool believes that his actions don't shape the world.

This thing that troubles you is only one small part of your life. Don't allow it to be all-consuming when there's so much more to embrace.

Dare to imagine. Dare to be. Books are the seeds. Dreams are the soil. The fruit of the harvest, a world reborn.

You can't argue with insanity. You can stare at it, gaping and incredulous, but arguing with it is futile.

Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway.

Problems don’t actually exist. They’re just the hallucinogenic effects of people being weirded out on what they think life is supposed to be.

Why hasn't someone lassoed a few teenagers and had them sit down and write out all the supposed answers they have so we can solve the world's problems already?

Vengeance is a monster of appetite, forever bloodthirsty and never filled.

Punishing a person for the wrongs of another makes about as much sense as throwing up to enjoy the meal a second time.

What's the point of changing who you are in order to impress a woman, when your intention is to return to who you were, a person she was never attracted to in the first place?

Be warned: A person content to sit with you and criticize others will speak critically of you out of earshot.

While you judge me by my outward appearance I am silently doing the same to you, even though there's a ninety-percent chance that in both cases our assumptions are wrong.

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.

It's an unfortunate fact that I'm easily discouraged. But the fortunate truth is I'm stubborn as hell and near impossible to sway in my resolve.

Life is just repeated attempts at trying to do better.

When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box.

I love writing poetry because it's pretty. I love writing pretty.

A session of boasting won't attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target.

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

Had she any respect for him at all, his words would've affected her. But no value accompanies comments spewed from the mouth of a brute.

Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth.

The power of a smile is such that even drawing a happy face on a piece of paper makes your lips turn up.

Happiness is simply a habit of looking on the brighter side of everything.

Your body and spirit, subconscious and conscious—every portion of you recognizes home.  That is why on the moment of arrival, your entire being relaxes into a contented puddle of joy.

Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home.

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home.

Real? Real depends upon your perspective, Annabelle. People never see life exactly the same way. The world is what you think it is.

Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered.

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper,  twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people.

You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance.

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.

Life is a character-building opportunity that we all volunteered for.

What's in a name?  The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you.

The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.

I wish upon a glimmering star, My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true, I’m thankful for the few that do.

It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.

The louder you bellyache, the longer your stomach will hurt.

You pierce me with a look, a word, a gesture. And yet those same weapons could shield me from hurt if you so choose.

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.

I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however.

A daydreamer is a writer just waiting for pen and paper.

A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on.

To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics: I can write.I have the opportunity to do so. I love what I write. Now smile and be thankful.

Gratitude is the real treasure God wants us to find, because it isn't the pot of gold but the rainbow that colors our world.

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors.

Every once in a while God allows you to stub your toe as a kind reminder to be grateful for the miraculous body attached to it.

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were.