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smiles

Ill & well

2025 March 16th2009 November 25th

Do not take anything for granted — not one smile or one person or one rainbow or one breath, or one night in your cozy bed.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, favorites, gratitude, happiness, popular, quotes, rainbows, self, simplicity, smiles, terri guillemets, wellness

Brotherly wisdom

2025 April 4th1999 February 8th

“If you ever change your mind… you’re not stuck with it. You’ve got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.”

—Steven D. Woodhull

Categories Collected Tags -all posts-, 1990s, attitude, collected, decisions, favorites, happiness, life, perspective, popular, quoted, quotes, smiles, steven d. woodhull

Victorious

2025 March 16th2012 January 14th

This smile isn’t a lack of pain. It’s a victory gesture of not letting pain defeat me.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, emotions, pain, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

Girl-heart

2025 March 17th2019 August 5th

her smiling girl-heart danced
behind the grey, grey hair

Terri Guillemets

scrambled blackout poetry created from Enid Bagnold, National Velvet, 1935

Categories Found Poetry Tags -all posts-, age & aging, altered prose, attitude, blackout poetry, dancing, favorites, found poetry, hair, heart, inner child, play, poems, popular, remix lit, self, smiles, spirit, terri guillemets, wellness, youth

Threads

2025 March 16th2009 November 29th

Life is woven of love and death, aches and smiles, persistence and letting go.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, balance, death, letting go, life, love, perspective, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

It’s okay

2025 October 6th1999 September 9th

Let your sorrow smile once in a while.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Correspondence Tags -all posts-, attitude, emotions, happiness, inspirational, letting go, melancholy, note to self, quotes, smiles, terri guillemets

Demurrer

2025 October 6th1999 February 9th

A smile is the best defense against this offensive world.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, perseverance, quotes, smiles, society, terri guillemets

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