Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another."
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"Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"The spirit of Christmas is a sweet, internal peace that testifies of the power of kindness and charity."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"My shoulders, broad and sculpted thick, were designed for two useful purposes. The one, to carry heavy loads like cedar logs and beams of steel and now and then the careful transfer of an injured friend to a bed of safety. The other purpose I consider superior, and that is to be, in all circumstances and forever, your headrest and cry pillow whereupon you may leave your heaviest burdens."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Imagine the greatness this world would know if kindness were as contagious and enduring as the common cold."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn’t care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Learning to breathe fire isn’t nearly as extraordinary as learning to breathe a word of kindness."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"You would think those who have endured unkindness would be kinder as a result, intent on sparing others the awful suffering they abhorred firsthand."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"I don’t know how to save the world, though I do know it involves a great deal of love and kindness."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"It’s easy to be kind to friends who return your smiles and happily lend a helping hand. But the true test of good character is finding the will and desire to be kind and charitable to those who give us absolutely no motivation to do so."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"As a child, I once suffered a bad fall that resulted in scratched palms and scraped knees. I remember how badly it stung, the cold air hitting my bleeding wounds; I felt that I couldn’t stand up for the pain. Through a veil of tears, I recall a kind hand reaching for me and helping me to my feet. My knees and palms were washed clean, and I remember thinking that for the rest of my life, I wanted to help people stand back up."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Lift up your eyes and see the good in the world, for we are people with an amazing capacity to do great good. And if only the minority choose to exercise this capacity to the smallest degree, oh how wondrous and sweet the deeds performed at but a few hands!"
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
"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."
Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
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