Healing Quotes and Poems

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

-Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary

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Healing Quote of the Day

Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. –Mother Theresa

Flood

Eliza Griswold I woke to a voice within the room. perhaps. The room itself: “You’re wasting this life expecting disappointment.” I packed my bag in the night and peered in its leather belly to count the essentials. Nothing is essential. To the east, the flood has begun. Men call to each other on the water …

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Healing Quote of the Day

Peace. It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart. –Unknown

Catch What You Can

Jean Garrigue The thing to do is try for that sweet skin One gets by staying deep inside a thing. The image that I have is that of fruit— The stone within the plum or some such pith As keeps the slender sphere both firm and sound. Stay with me, mountain flowers I saw And …

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Healing Quote of the Day

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.  –Leo Tolstoy

Starfish

Eleanor Lerman This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who say, Last night, the channel was …

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Healing Quote of the Day

  Love the life you live, Live the life you love. –Bob Marley

Put Something In

Shel Silverstein Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-grumble song, Whistle through your comb. Do a loony-goony dance ‘Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain’t been there before.   More about Shel Silverstein

Healing Quote of the Day

When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it’s a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect. – Arthur Schopenhauer

Healing Quote of the Day

What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive. –Barbara Kingsolver