Healing Quotes and Poems

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

-Gustave Flaubert, author of Madame Bovary

Quotes and poetry are food for the soul. Share a favorite quote or poem with Healing Hamlet.

New Year 2013

“An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful. -Dalai Lama

New Year’s Eve Reflection

With Gratitude… Healing Hamlet thanks those who have generously agreed to be interviewed and share their work with this website.  We appreciate all who have taken a moment to view our posts and for the many encouraging comments! Photograph by Emmanuel Keller “I’ve always believed that everyone has a story… you are finding the stories of some pretty …

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There is Nothing but Mystery

  “I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.” -Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees

Now We Are Six

When I was One, I had just begun. When I was Two, I was nearly new. When I was Three I was hardly me. When I was Four, I was not much more. When I was Five, I was just alive. But now I am Six, I’m as clever as clever, So I think I’ll …

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Look for the Helpers

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ To this day, especially in times of ‘disaster,’ I remember my mother’s words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are …

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These Woods

These woods like a darkened womb Bid me enter and remember And remember Our lives a tangled twitter Unfinished clutter Impossible beauty Ravaged and torn Reborn beneath an ever changing sky and deepest night ‘Til light returns to surest light Beginning where we end The wordless and the willful and the ever present Morning song. …

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Healing Quote of the Day

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass….it’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” -Vivian Greene     Submitted by Marieke Rajchel Kenmore, Wa