{"author":"Kate McGahan","author_id":"Kate+McGahan","total_quotes":156,"quotes":[{"text":"Deep within every crisis is an opportunity for something beautiful.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["crisis","opportunity"],"id":314,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"I've got some bad news and I've got some good news. Nothing lasts forever.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["bad","crisis","good","news","opportunity","situation","temporary"],"id":7248,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"You think you know what you want and how it's all supposed to turn out. When all is said and done, you get what you need. You know in the end that what you need is what you really wanted all along.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["desire","life","needs-and-wants"],"id":10189,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["anger","bereavement","blame","feel","grief","guilt","loss","process","stage","strength"],"id":10234,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that 'someone' was me.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["love","prayer","self-love"],"id":13721,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Shoes are like society. Once in awhile they have to replace the worn out souls.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["shoe","soul","worn-out"],"id":20878,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Death gets a bad rap. People think that euthanasia is putting their pets “down” when it really is lifting us up. In the first moment, when we come back to earth, we remember the comfort of the Heaven we came from and this is why we cry when we are born. When we are born in Heaven we come in laughing not crying! In birth we have the passage and then the pain. In death we have the pain and then the passage.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["birth","cry","crying","death","euthanasia","laugh","laughing","lifting-up","passage","putting-down"],"id":27412,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"You change for two reasons. Either you learn enough that you want to or you've been hurt enough that you have to.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["change","hurt","learn"],"id":28870,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you could know where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["act-of-love","clinging","death-and-dying","do-what-s-right","grief","heaven","letting-go","loss","love","unconditional-love"],"id":28909,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Humans are funny. The more someone doesn’t want someone, the more that someone wants that someone. The time came when she started pulling away. She had developed a tendency to focus on the things that she didn’t respect in him and eventually that’s all she saw.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["change","couple","dynamics","end","focus","relationship","respect","shift"],"id":37257,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":156,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}