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
stress
Inner light
If you keep a sunny attitude, you will glow like a rainbow when life gets stormy.
—Terri Guillemets
Don’t just sit there
If life is good, don’t just sit there — dance!
If life’s not so good — dance even more.
—Terri Guillemets
Ever finding
Always remember lost, so that you don’t take for granted found.
—Terri Guillemets
Stop to smell the goodness
Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.
—Terri Guillemets
Stitches & seams
I need to get over the hard times of my past. They’ve left scars, but scars are just memories.
—Terri Guillemets
Pierced flight
thorns and stings
and those such things
just make stronger
our angel wings
—Terri Guillemets
P.S. Thank you to everyone who has written letting me know that Katya Elise Henry got a tattoo of this poem. Honestly, I didn’t know who she was and had to look it up. But that’s pretty cool, and a nice tattoo.
No, thanks
Don’t feel guilty about saying no to the nonessentials in life! —
simplicity is
saying yes to joy
by saying no to
overmuch
overwhelm
overdoing
overhaving
overbeing
—Terri Guillemets
Re-learning life
Focus on the simple, good things in life and breathe your way through the minor struggles.
—Terri Guillemets
A turning trial by fire
Anger makes your life — and your body —
—Terri Guillemets
Bartleby
How can something bother you if you won’t let it?
—Terri Guillemets
A million invisible nothings
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by nothing.
—Terri Guillemets