Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"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."
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"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Nothing else has the power to calm, comfort, and care for you better than home."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"The place where you continually return for love and acceptance—that's home."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"I am grateful for the rare opportunities to look at my circumstances from a higher perspective, one detached from the dim outlook I normally insist on seeing. These periodic glimpses show me life's grandeur."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently suffered."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.)—Pray; discuss your troubles with God.—List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)—Call your mom.—Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.—Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Laugh as if it's funny, embrace as if it's love, and smile anyway."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"You were formed inside a borrowed womb—a nourishing safe haven for months—then delivered through painful effort and sacrifice by a woman willing to give you the precious gift of life. That truth alone deserves your gratitude and respect."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Gratitude doesn't change the scenery. It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"I am grateful for hands to tickle with. Not so grateful for that process in reverse, however."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Happiness isn't complicated. It is a humble state of gratitude for simple pleasures, tender mercies, recognized blessings, and inherent beauty."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Be thankful for your allotment in an imperfect world. Though better circumstances can be imagined, far worse are nearer misses than you probably care to realize."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Gratitude paints little smiley faces on everything it touches."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"You can add up your blessings or add up your troubles. Either way, you'll find you have an abundance."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"My world burns severe. Pockets of sweltering air attack every inch of me exposed, heated by fire spewed forth from the lungs of dragons. For defense I raise a glowing sword that shines by virtue of powers contrary to those I fight against. It is a battle that rages on and on for as long as any man can endure. But there are days I feel I cannot―drained and weary unlike these monsters that lash at me as if sustained by an abiding fervor in their bellies. The battle is harsh and my weapons"
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
"Life is too hard to maintain a constantly serious outlook. You have to laugh at yourself and the world now and then―see humor in undesirable circumstances, even harsh situations―or you will either rot from the inside or go stark-raving mad. Humor is power against the worst oppression. It lightens heavy burdens; it allows one to smile while in agony; it eases excruciating pains. In short, humor makes the intolerable tolerable."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
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