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G’ma & G’pa

2025 April 11th1987 February 1st

Grandmas and grandpas are grand-angels.

Terri Guillemets
journal, age thirteen

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

Nature lessons

2025 June 22nd1997 March 30th

Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that’s what I know.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, nature, plants, quotes, terri guillemets

Saving books

2025 April 28th2017 July 27th

I’ve been saving books for all these years, and they’ve been saving me for my entire life.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, authors, books, libraries, literature, quotes, reading, terri guillemets

Solar energy

2025 April 12th1990 January 20th

The sun is nature’s antidepressant.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, health, light, medical, nature, outdoors, quotes, revised, sun, terri guillemets, wellness

Eyes on eternity

2025 September 17th2012 October 15th

Life is so much clearer under the stars than under a roof.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, nature, night sky, outdoors, quotes, stars, terri guillemets, wisdom

2int0x1c4t3d

2025 April 18th1996 April 5th

The first glass is a sedative, the second a psychologist, the third glass an excuse, and the fourth a lobotomy.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, alcohol, math & numbers, popular, quotes, terri guillemets

Responsibilities

2025 July 11th2006 May 5th

Don’t fall prey to the illusion that duty is only to others — you have just as much a duty to care for yourself.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, health, note to self, quotes, self, self-care, terri guillemets, wellness

Continuous

2025 November 22nd2010 April 21st

Nature grows beautiful new life over old scars.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sunshine Journal Tags -all posts-, death, letting go, life, nature, perseverance, quotes, scars, terri guillemets

Saudade

2025 June 12th1992 December 9th

…and torture myself with happy thoughts…

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, happiness, melancholy, memories, past, quotes, terri guillemets

XV reasons

2025 March 28th1988 October 26th

Sometimes I feel like life misprinted me.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, quotes, self, terri guillemets

Exhaustive

2025 July 12th2004 July 29th

Grief is all emotions wrapped into one.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, emotions, grief, quotes, terri guillemets

Understanding death

2025 April 26th2019 January 17th

I read an article stating that cats don’t understand death the way humans do, so they don’t fear it like we do — I think they understand better than we do and therefore don’t fear it like we do.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, animals, cats, death, emotions, fear, humans, letting go, perspective, quotes, terri guillemets

Encouragement

2025 April 5th2009 May 13th

“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1800s, attitude, inspirational, note to self, quoted, quotes, ralph waldo emerson
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