{"author":"Laurie Buchanan","author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"One of the benchmarks of great communicators is their ability to listen not just to what's being said, but to what's not being said as well. They listen between the lines.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["between-the-lines","communication","communication-skills","listen","listening","listening-skills","listening-skills-good","note-to-self"],"id":22012,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"People who are adept in healthy self-expression exercise front-end consideration before speaking.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["communication","communication-skills","note-to-self","self-expression"],"id":44539,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"My mother, Delle Hunter, was a physically small woman, yet she was the biggest person I’ve ever known. She had total focus, an attribute that deeply impressed me. She taught me by example that how we live impacts how we die. She lived a life of courage, beauty, and integrity; she died in the same manner.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["death","death-and-dying","mom","mother","tribute"],"id":53187,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Each of us has an undeniable responsibility to ourself and the rest of the world to be our personal best on any given day.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["be-our-best","individual-responsibility","personal-best","personal-responsibility","responsibility","undeniable-responsibility"],"id":55644,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Doing something for the mere joy of it—for one's self or others—is quite possibly one of the best returns on an investment of time that a person can receive.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["investment of time","joy","note to self","return on investment","roi"],"id":70144,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Whatever you are not changing, you are choosing.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["change","choices","inspirational","motivational"],"id":96315,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Self-care is a deliberate choice to gift ourself with people, places, things, events, and opportunities that recharge our personal battery and promote whole health—body, mind, and spirit.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["body-mind-spirit","choices","health","healthy-lifestyle","healthy-living","self-care"],"id":97280,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Birth is not a beginning; it’s a continuation. That lends tremendous comfort because we then understand that, equally true, death is not an end; it’s merely a continuation.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["birth","continuation","death","death-and-dying","grief-and-loss","grief-inspirational"],"id":110396,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Oftentimes we feel like we can't say no, but YOU'LL LOWER YOUR STRESS BY NOT SAYING YES all of the time.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["just-say-no","stress","stress-management"],"id":112885,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"},{"text":"Regardless of the religious tradition, spiritual path, or personal perspective we choose to embrace, the potential exists for it to encourage and uplift every aspect of our being and to affect the types of goals we may choose to set for ourselves.","author":"Laurie Buchanan","tags":["goals","personal-perspective","religious-tradition","spiritual-path"],"id":156313,"author_id":"Laurie+Buchanan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}