Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.
—Terri Guillemets
adversity
Beautiful & unfair
Life is not always fair — sometimes you get a splinter sliding down
—Terri Guillemets
Inner light
If you keep a sunny attitude, you will glow like a rainbow when life gets stormy.
—Terri Guillemets
Pain is a story
Adversity enhances this tale we call life.
—Terri Guillemets
Don’t just sit there
If life is good, don’t just sit there — dance!
If life’s not so good — dance even more.
—Terri Guillemets
Ever finding
Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.
—Terri Guillemets
Stop to smell the goodness
Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.
—Terri Guillemets
Prickly & proverbial
Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.
—Terri Guillemets
Stitches & seams
I need to get over the hard times of my past. They’ve left scars, but scars are just memories.
—Terri Guillemets
Fusion
Sometimes we can’t let go of the pain because we think it’s the only thing holding us together.
—Terri Guillemets
Pierced flight
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
Re-learning life
Focus on the simple, good things in life and breathe your way through the minor struggles.
—Terri Guillemets
Pain & struggle
We can’t always see the scatters and tatters of a broken heart. Kindness is due to all fellow beings — we never know the invisible hurts they’re enduring.
—Terri Guillemets
Bartleby
How can something bother you if you won’t let it?
—Terri Guillemets
@Risk
Life is like running with scissors
naked through freezing blizzards
—Terri Guillemets
In pieces
The emotions are part of the wound.
—Terri Guillemets
Homeward
Weather is a great metaphor for life — sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, and there’s nothing much we can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain.
—Terri Guillemets