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attitude

Your battle

2025 March 16th2020 February 8th

If your armor against the world is laziness and excuses, you’re not protecting yourself from battle and injury — you’ve trapped yourself inside with them.

Terri Guillemets

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Bent & broken

2025 April 4th2021 October 14th

“I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.”

—Charles Dickens (1812–1870), Great Expectations, 1861

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1800s, adversity, attitude, charles dickens, collected, favorites, popular, quoted, quotes

Healing stronger

2025 March 16th2009 September 30th

Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we’ve been through.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, body, emotions, healing, hope, letting go, pain, perspective, popular, quotes, scars, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets

Saving y’all some time

2025 March 16th2019 May 8th

After reading countless health books over the past couple of decades, I can tell you it pretty much all boils down to this:  Eat plenty of veggies, work, play, rest, and don’t worry.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, balance, body, eating, food, health, life, medical, mind, nutrition, perspective, play, quotes, simplicity, stress, success, terri guillemets, wellness

Little thriving without roots

2025 March 17th2010 March 8th

Live for the roots
Love the green
Dance with the blossoms

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, colors, dancing, flowers, gardens, green, life, love, nature, poems, popular, terri guillemets

Kindling

2025 April 15th2009 January 5th

Every dawn relights my soul.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, gratitude, light, morning, quotes, sky, soul, sun, sunrise & sunset, terri guillemets

Tough as concrete

2025 March 16th2009 May 2nd

Each negative experience hardens us a little more to life. Some of us are tough as concrete. But try to leave yourself a few cracks, so that love and flowers can grow through.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, quotes, stress, terri guillemets

None excluded

2025 March 16th2019 January 12th

Prayer is for the grateful and for the grateful-to-be.

Terri Guillemets

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Bartleby

2025 March 16th1998 January 13th

How can something bother you if you won’t let it?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, favorites, letting go, note to self, perspective, popular, quotes, self, stress, terri guillemets

Woodard’s wisdom

2025 April 4th2024 April 25th

“The cure… resign as general manager of the universe.”

—Rev. Jack Woodard, 1961

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1960s, attitude, collected, inspirational, jack woodard, letting go, motivational, quoted, quotes

Pain is a story

2025 March 16th2005 December 10th

Adversity enhances this tale we call life.

Terri Guillemets

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Every dawn

2025 March 17th2005 October 1st

Dawn is the glow of opportunity, the light of a fresh start, the aurora of hope breaking open a new day.

Terri Guillemets

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Soaring

2025 March 16th2007 November 5th

Give your stress wings and let it fly away.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, letting go, popular, quotes, stress, terri guillemets, wings
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