{"author":"Paula Heller Garland","author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"The moment I felt my life return was when I took a breath and said to him, 'No thank you. Were I as perfect as you are demanding, life would be rather boring.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["perfection","reclaim"],"id":39894,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"People may say no one ever died of a broken heart, but when you're suffering from one, it sure doesn't feel that way--at least initially.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["broken-heart"],"id":60950,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["advice","aligned"],"id":62054,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"Don't beg a man to keep you. If he isn't sure you are the right one make the decision for yourself. You deserve better than maybe.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["decision","second-best"],"id":74781,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"I lit the candles and said out loud, “what am I waiting on? Someone to sell them in a garage sale for a quarter after I die?” And it was beautiful. And the smell was even more incredible than I remembered.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["candles","living-in-the-present","living-now","waiting"],"id":100014,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"I had to ask myself why I'm continuing to engage in behavior I knew hurt. What was my payoff? Did it confirm my belief I was not enough? Did I think I needed to suffer? Did I think I could save him? Why not save myself instead? What a miserable realization that I knew all of this yet failed to take action.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["action","hurt","misery","suffer"],"id":107595,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"As I was standing in my kitchen cooking yesterday, a quiet task that causes my mind to begin reminiscing (similar to washing dishes, cleaning the bathrooms and mowing), I reached for the kitchen scissors and off I went. Kitchen scissors. Who knew there were special scissors to cut food items? Mom did.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["cooking","kitchen","memories","mom","scissors"],"id":119258,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"The burden of my anxiety is not my child's.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["anxiety"],"id":176758,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"I'm amazed how my soul is served the messages I need to be fed at exactly the time I'm in need. When I'm open.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["need","soul"],"id":182623,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"},{"text":"I may not always like at times, but life is a beautiful blend of joy, tragedy and dreams. If not for one, I could not have the other.","author":"Paula Heller Garland","tags":["dreams","hope","joy","tragedy"],"id":219166,"author_id":"Paula+Heller+Garland"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}