{"id":1112,"date":"2015-10-08T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T18:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/?p=1112"},"modified":"2015-10-12T03:06:24","modified_gmt":"2015-10-12T03:06:24","slug":"the-power-of-words-to-unstick-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/howgreatthoupart\/2015\/10\/the-power-of-words-to-unstick-a-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Words to Unstick a Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"

I surf Pinterest in between sips of coffee. My ‘quote habit’ sucks me in. <\/p>\n

I reserve this addiction for the same space I save animal videos. Why? I usually can’t stop myself from looking. <\/p>\n

I am a writer with writer obsessions, things like pens and pretty paper. In fact, REALLY pretty pens make me as happy as jewelry – well, almost. <\/p>\n

Quotes; however, are my magic. Like when you spot something you like so much that you hear choirs of angels sing? <\/p>\n

So I confess. I am a quote hoarder. <\/p>\n

Just ask my boys. They have witnessed quotes plastered to their bathroom mirrors, tucked inside their lunches, stuck inside their suitcases, and all over their rooms. Correction – all over the house. College doesn’t stop me either. I just plant them in their dorm rooms, text them or mail them. Though I must admit that bathroom mirrors are a bit of my fave since they can’t ignore them there.<\/p>\n

So this is what I do for my children when I think they might need words from someone other than their mom. <\/p>\n

I gravitate most to a line of cards (www.quotablecards.com)<\/p>\n

My kids have observed a plaster of these black and white words since they were old enough to read. I do this to remind them of the gray in life. The part of life where everything is possible. Where the world is multi-colored and anything they dream can happen. I do it to remind them of the gray part of life where the heart lives. Where feelings reside, need to be massaged and let out to play.<\/p>\n

I believe that we all need words. We all need quotes – we need this ’emotional currency.’<\/p>\n

This morning as I collect the heart’s dinero, moolah, dough, Benjamin’s…via Pinterest – I spot a quote one particular quote.<\/p>\n

“When we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, There are only two: An attachment to the past or a fear for the future.” – Marie Kondo<\/p>\n

I am reminded that there are the quotes that are not the hope filled gray ones, but rather the black and white ones.<\/p>\n

The ones that take out the middle of the road, the rock and a hard place and the in between. The ones that tell it like it is and are so profound in their simplicity that they erase our complexities.<\/p>\n

The black and white ones that we have to face before we can be inspired again by the gray ones.<\/p>\n

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