Quotes from Terri Guillemets

If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga.

The first sip of tea is always the best... you cringe as it burns the back of your throat, knowing you just had the hottest carpe-diem portion.

For some, pleasure is a fever they can't shake. For others, it's a disease they cannot seem to catch.

If I fall asleep with a pen in my hand, don't remove it — I might be writing in my dreams.

Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.

Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.

Some colors exist in dreams that are not present in the waking spectrum.

I try to avoid stress — it makes me feel like I'm rubber-stamping all my organs "Urgent!"

Don't shade your eyes from the bright joy of the world.

To some, the cigarette is a portable therapist.

Like steam from a cup of hot tea that fogs our glasses, false urgency of matters at hand blurs our vision to important things in the distance.

Wallets are the fabricated items into which we put our fabricated money, which most people believe to be their possession of the realest value.

Hate less, live longer.

Journal: fitting your heart and soul into ruled lines.

Listen to the little voice of doubt only if it has something insightful or smart to say, not if it's just spouting fear.

In Phoenix summer is the title, the refrain, And every other verse.

The air of reality is too thick for me I choke on it I must live on shadows Even my poetry is vicarious.

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.

Age swallows our childhood.

There comes a time when a woman needs to stop thinking about her looks and focus her energies on raising her children. This time comes at the moment of conception. A child needs a role model, not a supermodel.

The past can't see you, but the future is listening.

Flowers don't open to the clock but to the sunshine spontaneous; for modern humans that manner of instinct is now extraneous.

If junk food is the devil, then a sweet orange is as scripture.

Candle light, moon light, star light, The brightest glow is from love light.