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 …
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 …
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 …
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