Drink Tea and Let It Be, and Other Fun and Inspirational Tea Slogans

As often with my slogans and articles, when something happens in my life I defuse the situation creatively, literally creating a new slogan or writing a piece in order to reflect on my situation and become “chill,” as young people say nowadays.

As it happens, lately I’ve had to come to terms with lots of personal and family difficulties pretty much on my own. In my teenage years I used to rely a great deal on my friends, but it turns out life gets pretty heavy for a lot of people over forty, regardless of whether they are married or have children. Our parents get older and more frail and in need of assistance of all kinds, and sometimes we or our partners develop health issues as well, often quite early in life, and then, of course, there are financial crises and changes in the workplace. For one, everybody tends to work longer hours, including weekends sometimes, and many people continue to work from home after they get back from the office.

I’ve always tended to be constructive, and to think of better ways to use my skills and grow personally and professionally, but it turns out I’ve placed too large a bet on online pursuits, which, in turn, has placed a burden on my family. Hence lots of problems and tension. Which, again, I’ve tried to fix by changing direction several times. Only somehow I can’t give up on older projects, and so I’ve ended up stretching myself quite thin as I keep telling myself that my creative pursuits matter too, because much too often they allow me not only a (working) respite from my troubles, but also quite a powerful relief.

So, without further ado, let’s move on to inspirational tea slogans and quotes.

My "Life hurts. More tea?" design is a snappier version of the slogan "Drink tea and let it be." I imagined the former as part of a series of quips offered by an elderly upperclass lady on the topic of "Life hurts." The second installment was "Life requires determination. More tea?" and the third one, "Right . . . More tea?" before the upperclass lady loses her temper, and blurts, "More tea? MOVE ON!"

Truth be told, I quite liked this imagined conversation (with the exception, perhaps, of the fourth installment), but for some reason it didn't take on :)

I’m a tea fiend. I think I have more than ten tea packages open at any given time. (I used to open about twenty at a time, but then I downsized in order to enjoy the teas at their best flavors.) I drink true teas -- green, black, white, and oolong, and lots of various fruit and flower combinations based on them – and I drink herbal teas – linden, peppermint, rooibos, hibiscus, ginger, echinacea, sea buckthorn, lavender, sage, basil, elderflower, strawberry and other berries, apple, licorice, lemongrass, lemon balm – in various blends thereof, and with added accents like papaya, mango, pineapple bits, orange peel, and flower petals. I also drink more medicinal tisanes – things like juniper, coltfoot (Tussilago farfara), and thyme on the rare occasions when I have a cold, for instance.

It’s hard to say which teas I prefer, or even if I prefer true teas, made from the tea plant, or herbal infusions, because I tend to prefer creative blends which often mix the two. Or things like spicy rooibos, with ginger, lemongrass, and orange peel, among others. But as tea is a wonderful thing, sometimes it works wonders in blends of two ingredients as well, as is the case with green tea with peppermint or rooibos tea with vanilla.

And then there are the blends that I make myself, such as masala chai (it means “spiced tea” and it’s a blend of black tea and ginger, cardamom, and cloves, taken with milk), or flavored milky black tea to which I add a vanilla stick and ginger while it’s brewing.

I’m always curious which blends other people prefer, so do share!

And now let’s move on to the slogans.

It always baffles me how some people never tire of drinking the same kind of coffee every day (nothing wrong with that), but when it comes to tea, they find nothing to their taste. After all, it’s not for nothing that we say that someone is our cup of tea.

It’s probably just a question of easier habits. We need coffee for the higher caffeine levels, and then maybe we don’t have much time – or energy! – left to think of tea. And yet: green tea reduces the risk of breast and lung cancer, among others; and white tea the risk of colon cancer and arthritis – besides improving our overall health as a consequence of their high antioxidant load.

But much too often we don’t like to think of brews and foods on account of their health benefits, and prefer, instead, to choose them based on how they taste. If we're unlucky enough to associate the taste of tea with chamomile, which for all it's good it's that tasty, if you ask me, or to a particular version of black tea we don't like, we may be put off tea. The trick is to give tea a chance -- sorry, tea really puts me in a good mood :)

Coffee too, for that matter, because throughout the day I tend to drink flavored decaf coffees. So I made this slogan for coffee as well. It is, of course, based on Samuel Johnson's observation that "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life." 

So, in a way, tea and the social rituals associated with it are, indeed, a hug in a cup, as one Pinterest post on my Tea Quotes boards has it.

Also, as Lewis Carroll put it, “It’s always tea-time.” Those of us who are slightly addicted to tea know that, and given that any time is tea time, we can keep calm and carry on. True and herbal teas can make quite a significant difference in the state of our health, and it's a good thing to form a habit to drink two or three cups of tea (or more, as long as they are all different) every day.

Chamomile tea, to take only a popular tea of olden days, which has remained so due to various blends with honey, for instance (but I advise you against buying those, as honey becomes toxic at high temperatures) can do so much, from helping with digestive issues and skin problems to lowering high blood sugar and high blood pressure, and reducing LDL (bad) cholesterol levels and triglycerides levels. It can also fight against several types of cancers. And its health benefits don't stop here, so why not try to drink this tea and others as prophylactic drinks?

Teatulia, for instance, has great organic premium blends, in plant-based pyramid tea bags. Here it is. Please note that the link below leads to many options of true and herbal tea blends from Teatulia, all of them organic and with premium, compostable pyramid tea bags.

Another quip I like is Leave me be, I’m drinking my tea (this one, too, is from Pinterest). 

It works if you’re the kind of person who likes to snuggle in an armchair or on a couch with a good book and a tasty cup of tea, and forget, for a while, the whooshing sound of time passing by.

I created the above quote based on John Wilson’s “Oh for a book and a shady nook.” I thought he missed something essential :) I then put it on various products, starting with cork-back plastic coasters.

I also put this quote on decorative pillows (for the said nook . . .) and on keychains, complete with my friend's beautiful illustration of that vintage tea cups with roses.

When life throws you lemons, you can make lemonade, or you can grab a cuppa. It's very useful when you don't want to turn to a friend right away but rather let your thoughts and emotions settle down before you share them with someone.

I could go on, but I'll stop here for now, but not before I share one more tea quote, which happens to appeal to a lot of people who visit my store: Life requires determination. And tea. -- Ain't it so?