We paint our lives with passion and peace, with love and laughter — to cover the pain and scars, the bitterness and tears.
—Terri Guillemets
We paint our lives with passion and peace, with love and laughter — to cover the pain and scars, the bitterness and tears.
—Terri Guillemets
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
O! how many ghosts in a wound of war.
—Terri Guillemets
Try not to worry, as it’s sticky and hard to scrub off.
—Terri Guillemets
The mind can cook up very subtle syndromes to throw at our bodies.
—Terri Guillemets
Grief is a burden
but also a friend—
It is not grief that
wounds your heart
but it is grief that
heals your heart.
—Terri Guillemets
Tea is a magical calming elixir — like, as if coffee had a therapist.
—Terri Guillemets
Frustration is nothing more than letting your own mind bully you.
—Terri Guillemets
graves are not limited
to the cemetery —
they lurk in our minds,
and buried in our hearts
lie garlanded stones
marking loved ones lost
—Terri Guillemets
Our bodies let go when it’s time to let go — it’s called death. We ought to let go of the little burdensome things each day — that’s called living.
—Terri Guillemets
Night
— the quiet of solitude
— the silence of loneliness
—Terri Guillemets
A nightmare is only a dream that hits turbulence.
—Terri Guillemets
Three A.M. is when
all the quiet things
become loud —
the drip in the sink,
that clock on the wall,
our hearts, our minds.
—Terri Guillemets