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success

How to shine

2025 March 16th2019 May 27th

it’s not that the people
with nice shiny attitudes
haven’t been banged up —
but they buff out their
dings and scratches with
gratitude and positivity
perspective and grace
resilience and courage
with purpose and faith

Terri Guillemets

Categories Healing Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, attitude, gratitude, letting go, metaphor, perspective, poems, popular, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, wellness, work hard

Run for it!

2025 March 16th1997 November 8th

Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, dreams, favorites, passion, popular, quotes, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, work hard

Waking to a newer than new day

2025 September 5th2007 November 17th

Each morning begins with the triumph and celebration of waking to a new day and the blessing of being able to get out of bed. What better way to start the day than with a success like that?

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, blessings, gratitude, health, morning, popular, quotes, success, terri guillemets, wellness

Humble warrior

2025 March 16th2001 September 29th

Success is a shell — don’t let it harden around your ego.
Failure is a shell — don’t let it harden around your determination.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, failure, poems, popular, quotes, revised, self, success, terri guillemets, work hard

The path

2025 March 16th2005 January 11th

Follow your passion, and success will follow you.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Sketch Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, dreams, favorites, passion, popular, quotes, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, work hard

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

Middle ground

2025 March 16th2017 April 7th

Failure is not frailty.
Success never guarantees.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, failure, perspective, poems, quotes, success, terri guillemets

Hoofprints

2025 March 17th2019 September 4th

Fortune is a centaur —
half man, half luck

Terri Guillemets

Categories Creativity Journal Tags -all posts-, attitude, life, metaphor, philosophical, poems, self, spirit, success, terri guillemets, work hard

Prickly & proverbial

2025 March 16th2005 February 11th

Experience is the thorn-lined road to success.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Personal Journal Tags -all posts-, adversity, life, quotes, success, terri guillemets, work hard

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