Sometimes you just need to be open to the universe’s alternate plans for you.
—Terri Guillemets
self
Humble warrior
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
Dock & thistle
Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?
—Damon Knight (1922–2002), The Man in the Tree, 1984
A turning trial by fire
Anger makes your life — and your body —
—Terri Guillemets
Inside the lines, outside the box
Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines.
—Terri Guillemets
Bartleby
How can something bother you if you won’t let it?
—Terri Guillemets
Run for it!
Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.
—Terri Guillemets
Passed down
To journal is a present of the past to your future self.
—Terri Guillemets
Who’s there?
Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer.
—Terri Guillemets
Self-help
The secret to wellness is being your own guardian angel.
—Terri Guillemets
Chasing the past
Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thanks so much to Rebecca for letting me know that this quote was used in the television show Being Erica. In the episode “Plenty of Fish,”
Heart ink
Keep a diary even if you rip it up every night.
—Terri Guillemets
In pieces
The emotions are part of the wound.
—Terri Guillemets