{"quotes":[{"text":"By taking the time to focus on our mental and emotional well-being, we can minimize our triggers and reduce the likelihood of a recurrence.","author":"Sarah Hackley","tags":["chronic-illness","healthy-living","living-well","migraine"],"id":18855,"author_id":"Sarah+Hackley"},{"text":"Remember this: You are the expert of your body.","author":"Sarah Hackley","tags":["chronic-illness","healthy-living","living-well","migraine"],"id":21096,"author_id":"Sarah+Hackley"},{"text":"You spend a lot of time thinking about how awful the prison is rather than envisioning your future.","author":"Piper Kernan","tags":["chronic-illness","perspective","prison"],"id":24599,"author_id":"Piper+Kernan"},{"text":"My love has saved me. It wraps strong arms around me when I cry with despair;it gives me the routine of a working week to lend vicarious structure to my shapeless days. It brings me daily laughter, a reason to keep washing...And it slices me open with guilt.","author":"Anna Lyndsey","tags":["chronic-illness","despair","relationship"],"id":50873,"author_id":"Anna+Lyndsey"},{"text":"I'm tired of having to struggle for what seems to come easily to everyone else.","author":"Mercedes Lackey","tags":["chronic-illness","difficulty","illness","struggle"],"id":52601,"author_id":"Mercedes+Lackey"},{"text":"I create beautiful art, so I can look back on the life my body fell short of in such a way that it brings me peace.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["art","art-matters","art-therapy","artist","beautiful","chronic-illness","courage","crps","crps-warrior","depth","free-spirit","hope","hopeful","inspiration","inspire","journey","meaningful","stillness","wise-words"],"id":54870,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"I will be living with chronic pain for the rest of my life. I don’t have the mobility, energy or life options I used to have. I work hard to manage the pain, and I want the medical system to be a respectful and effective partner, not a jailer. The opioid crisis is not my doing.","author":"Sonya Huber","tags":["addiction","chronic-illness","chronic-pain","chronic-pain-stigma","judgemental-people","opioid-use","opioids","pain-killer-pills","pain-management","painkillers","stigmatization","stigmatized"],"id":60988,"author_id":"Sonya+Huber"},{"text":"The video was still playing, although I didn't know why. It seemed as if the able-bodied dancers were mocking me.","author":"Sarah Todd Hammer","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","dance","disability","fatigue","inspirational","invisible-illness","motivational","myelitis","neuropathy","paralysis","rare-disease","run","sci","spinal-cord-injury","tm","transverse-myelitis"],"id":65805,"author_id":"Sarah+Todd+Hammer"},{"text":"The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["chronic-illness","cure","cures","healing","illness","inspirational","recovery"],"id":68542,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"If I only could explain How much I miss that precious moment when I was free from the shackles of chronic pain.","author":"Jenni Johanna Toivonen","tags":["chronic-illness","chronic-pain","crps","life-philosophy","thoughts-on-life","words-to-ponder"],"id":76242,"author_id":"Jenni+Johanna+Toivonen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}