{"author":"Jennifer DeLucy","author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy","total_quotes":22,"quotes":[{"text":"It occurred to me to look up and around at the stars in the clear sky, at the trees in the dark, at the half moon. I was missing them because I was caught in my head. I wasn't living right now. I was thinking to the future, to the past. I wasn't present. This is one of my greatest weaknesses, and one I have a greater realization of, only because I allowed some of my past to die so that my present could rush in to fill it.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["being-present","inspirational","present-moment","self-awareness","self-improvement"],"id":106901,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"Do you ever feel like this? You're moving through the world, encountering people left and right but there's something not quite present - like you KNOW there's more to them, but it's like they're sleeping. Or closed. And so, somehow, you have to close a little, too. Then you meet someone who side-slides into the room of life and screams, 'I'm alive! I'm present! Here I am!' And you think, 'There you are! I KNEW you were alive. I've been looking everywhere for you!' And you can tell they're awake. And even if you ended up hating them later, you would love them because they weren't sleeping, and with them you didn't have to sleep, either. I'm pretty sure that's what makes real friends happen.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["awareness","enlightenment","friendship","life","love","soulmates"],"id":114272,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["empowerment","encouragement","hard-times","life","motivational","power","suffering"],"id":115932,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"Life's been one tough little shit, but there's a very obvious reason why she hasn't let me get too comfy, settle too long or sink too deep. She knows she has to kick me in the ass sometimes to get me moving on my journey.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["change","chaos","courage","embracing-the-unknown","encouragement","journey","journey-to-yourself","learning","life","self-awareness","self-realization"],"id":162409,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["difficulties","empower","empowering","empowerment","encouraging","growth","inspirational","rebirth","renewal","self-awareness","self-realization","trials","weathering-hard-times"],"id":166315,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"Before entering into any kind of intimate relationships, whether friendship, familial re-connection, or romance, the idea of “needing” or “being needed” must be eliminated. It's harmful to me and others. Need is no kind of foundation for anything. Rather, I choose to be wanted. “Want” is a deliberate choice. Wanting is not based in fear or ego (which are one in the same, I believe). Want comes from recognition of someone else's goodness and loving them for it. Being wanted is unconditional. It does not require emotional games be played, it does not require reparations be made or obligations be met. Being wanted is good, in and of itself.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["co-dependence","inner-strength","relationships","self-esteem","self-love","unconditional-love"],"id":184541,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.Lily: What's.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["journey","love"],"id":218473,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"I knew this for a fact. Little by little, the ache to see him, to hear him would disappear. Little by little I’d forget how his arms felt, how his fingers felt, how his lips felt..The sound of his voice, the intensity of his gaze, all of it. Trace by trace it would slip from my mind, recede into foggy memory. The painful haze that dulled my present would melt into the past. Maybe not all the way, maybe there would be a few scars. Maybe I'd be different, but I’d be me again. Little by little.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["angst","angsty-love","breaking-up","breakups","broken-heart","death","divorce","loneliness","losing-a-loved-one","loss","love","overcoming-pain","romance","separation"],"id":231376,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"Let the darkness find you if it must. Throw off the quick and tempting escapes, and seek help only from those who would teach you to grow, feed your soul, embrace your heart, but would not steal away your journey.","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["growth","hard-times","jou","journey","self-awareness","self-realization","trials"],"id":247017,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"},{"text":"How many of us stop short of success on purpose? How many of us sabotage our own happiness because failure, while miserable, is a fear we're familiar with? Success, however, dreams come true, are a whole new kind of terrifying, an entire new species of responsibilities and disillusions, requiring a new way to think, act and become. Why do we REALLY quit? Because it's hopeless? Or because it's possible...","author":"Jennifer DeLucy","tags":["failure","fear-of-failure","fear-of-unknown","giving-up","inspirational","motivational","success","successful-living"],"id":258356,"author_id":"Jennifer+DeLucy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}