Richelle E. Goodrich

The greatest gift you can give is your time. _Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. _People need your presence. _The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

I wish the hearts of human beings pumped with kind desires.I wish every gaze landed on the eyes of others compassionately.I wish hatred, envy, and vengeance were alien concepts to humankind.I wish the precious worth of every soul was universally understood.

Sympathy is imagining the pain. Empathy is having suffered through it first.

Empathy is a hand thick with scars offering you a bandage.

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

The soft heart is not a thing to harden but a treasure to protect. For soft hearts extend mercy, compassion, refuge, and God__ redemption to the world.

I couldn__ think of anyone I__ ever felt sorry for. There were plenty of kids I was envious of. There were others I achingly admired, but that might simply be another form of jealousy. Then there were those I feared, dreaded. And the worst of them, the man who shamed me. I could see my father__ angry features looming over my mother. I could clearly picture her beside him in his truck, cowering against the door while he belittled and assaulted her. I guess I did know someone I felt sorry for.

What kind of person is void of compassion? A heartless one. But alas, compassion cannot exist without the endurance of afflictions.

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.

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

Walk with me for a while, my friend__ou in my shoes, I in yours__nd then let us talk.

One smile has the power to...Calm fears.Soften stone walls.Warm a cold heart.Invite a new friend.Mimic a loving hug.Beautify the bearer.Lighten heavy loads.Promote good deeds.Brighten a gloomy day.Comfort a grieving spirit.Offer hope to the forlorn.Send a message of caring.Lift the downtrodden soul.Patch up invisible wounds.Weaken the hold of misery.Act as medicine for suffering.Attract the companionship of angels.Fulfill the human need for recognition.Who knew changing the world would prove so simple?

Jesus Christ died to save us from our sins; we tend to concentrate on that merciful fact. But isn't it also true He lived to show us a lifestyle free from sin? So, wouldn't following in his footsteps be something like preventative medicine?

Unto you is bornin the city of Davida Savior for all.

Love__uch 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._

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

Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.