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

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. –Elbert Hubbard

Drink Your Tea

Thich Nhat Hahn Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.   More about Thich Nhat Hahn

Healing Quote of the Day

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.  So throw off the bowlines.  Sail away from the safe harbor.  Catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore.  Dream.  Discover. – Mark Twain

The Patience of Ordinary Things

Pat Schneider It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdy and foursquare, How the floor receives the bottoms of shoes Or toes. How soles of feet know Where they’re supposed to be. I’ve been thinking about the patience Of ordinary things, how clothes …

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Healing Quote of the Day

Photo by Darla  No more Hurting People. Peace. –Martin Richard, 8 years old Killed in the Boston Marathon Bombings

If I Don’t Write

Roya Photo by Cordelia Persen I asked my soul last night, “What happens to you if you don’t write?” My soul was in deep thought I said again, “Answer me… Pardon me! I asked if you don’t write, what will happen?” My soul’s eyes were full of tears. She sat in front of me and …

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Healing Quote of the Day

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. –John Lennon

Open Your Eyes

Photo by Jim Simonson Darling, Open your eyes. You are not made up of those words that hurt you. Or that number on that scale. Or the expectations you feel you will never meet. You are made up of nothing more than you. Simply, beautiful, wonderfully, uniquely you. You are a lovely and complex soul. …

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Healing Quote of the Day

  If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are? ― Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, It’s a Magical World

Wild Geese

Mary Oliver Photo by Tim Ellis You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you …

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