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Breathing & stuff

2025 March 16th2005 October 8th

Clutter smothers. Simplicity breathes.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, breathing, clutter, popular, quotes, simplicity, terri guillemets

Talking inside out

2025 March 16th2000 October 12th

Friends make you smile — best friends make you giggle ’til you pee your pants.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Lunch Break Journal Tags -all posts-, friends, ha ha, laughter, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Giving is getting

2025 March 16th1993 January 27th

Give, and blessings boomerang back to you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, blessings, gratitude, helping, kindness, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Middle

2025 March 16th2018 August 18th

A headstone is just a bookmark in our unfinished lives.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, age & aging, books, death, humans, life, loss, perspective, popular, quotes, self, spiritual, terri guillemets, time

Don’t cry, — rally!

2025 March 16th2009 September 16th

What is your life’s motto? Write one. And live by it. And revise it when life revises you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, life, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Stories of love

2025 March 16th1995 November 6th

In a new love, it’s easy to live for the moment because there is no past. The more past you accumulate, the harder it is not to live there — and that’s true whether it’s good or bad.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, love, past, quotes, relationships, terri guillemets

Oh, we see it

2025 April 4th2023 January 6th

“Who so blind as not to see that a great change has come over the leaders of that party, and the representatives of that party on this floor?”

—David Wilmot (1814–1868), U.S. House of Representatives, speech, 1850 July 24th

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1800s, collected, current events, david wilmot, history, how true, politics, popular, quoted, quotes, society

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

In pieces

2025 March 16th1995 January 12th

The emotions are part of the wound.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, body, emotions, favorites, memories, mind, perspective, popular, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Grow love

2025 March 16th1996 April 5th

Plant love everywhere, so that it grows through the cracks in hatred.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, hate, love, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Tenacious

2025 March 16th1996 February 18th

Reality is irritatingly obstinate
and so very gosh darn’d sticky!

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, quotes, reality, revised, terri guillemets

Juxtaposing

2025 March 16th2008 December 25th

Spring blossoms flowers
Winter blossoms quietude

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, flowers, nature, poems, quotes, seasons, silence, spring, terri guillemets, winter

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
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