{"author":"Jaeda DeWalt","author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt","total_quotes":79,"quotes":[{"text":"When we are self-aware, we are able to reach beyond ourselves and objectively assess others... Allowing us to meet them where they are at, seeing into their needs and struggles, so we can understand the way they experience life, even if it is vastly different from the way we experience, our own.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["inspirational","life","living-awake","self-awareness","wise-words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":1050,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["giving","gratitude","inspirational","receiving","wisdom"],"id":12047,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"I love dipping into dreams and sinuously sinking into sleep. It's the freest place to be. The possibilities are limitless and my imagination becomes a weightless wonder.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["dreaming","dreams","imagination","inspirational","sleep","wonder"],"id":22818,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn't work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time to recharge if I am to give from a place of abundance.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["being-an-introvert","jaeda-dewalt","personal-boundaries","solitary-sanctuary","solitude"],"id":26243,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... Mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["creativity","exhaustion","insomnia","inspiration","mind"],"id":27465,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"Art gives those unexpressed parts of ourselves permission to be felt and spoken.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["art","creativity","inspirational","self-expression"],"id":28203,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the world, can't drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we need others to tell us we're amazing, worthy and lovable, in order to feel good about ourselves, it is never enough. It goes into the bottomless pit where our inherent self-worth should be. It may feel like we are reaching out to receive love, but in actuality, we are seeking external noise to help drown out our negative core beliefs.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["advice","breaking-up","jaeda-dewalt","letting-go","love","moving-on","relationships","self-worth"],"id":30291,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["healing","inspirational","life","pain","tragedy","triumph","wisdom"],"id":37766,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"When we have the disease to please, the word, 'Yes' can taste of resentment. We need to take care of ourselves, first, so we can give from a place of abundance. When we give ourselves away to everyone else, first, we having nothing left, with which, to nourish ourselves. This can lead to feelings of bitterness and resentment. Giving to others should be a joyous and enriching experience.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["being-a-people-ppleaser","inspirational","learning-to-say-no","life","setting-healthy-boundaries","the-disease-to-please","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":40683,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"Poetry purrs like a kitten on the tip of our tongue. Each word fluidly floating from our lips, like little crystalline snowflakes, before settling onto an emotional wonderland of forgotten feelings. It has the power to pull our deepest emotions to the surface of consciousness and to serenade our soul with the haunting melody of a self, lost... And finally found.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["emotional-wonderland","haunting-melody-of-self","inspirational","jaeda-dewalt","poetic","poetry","poetry-purrs-like-a-kitten","serenade-our-soul"],"id":40701,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":79,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}