{"quotes":[{"text":"If you have feelings for someone, let them know. It doesn’t matter if they can be in your life or not. Maybe, it is just enough for both of you to release the truth, so healing can occur. The opposite is true, as well. If you don’t have feelings for someone then never let another person suggest that you do. Protect your reputation and be responsible for the wrong information spread about you. Never allow anyone to live with a false belief or unfounded hope about you. An honorable person sets the record straight, so that person can move on with their life.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["angry-men","answers","behavior","clarification","closure","communication","confusion","crushes","family-members","gentlemen","good-life","husband","inconsistent-behavior","jealous-women","man","mixed-signals","nonsense","relationships","rumors","seeking-closure","siblings","sisters","spouse","stalkers","truth","wife","woman","women"],"id":17129,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Somethings worth having defy logic. They come with obstacles, challenges, battles and long periods of wandering in the dark. Your path won't make sense to your family or friends. People will weigh in with their life rules and fears, but in the end it is your life. That pull you feel is real and often your intuition. It nags at you everyday. Follow it for as far as it takes you because life is too short to dwell on indecision, while you forget to live. Take a chance because if you have a good heart God isn't going to abandon you. He will travel wherever you need to go, in order to find the missing pieces of your soul.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bravery","career","chances","choices","closure","complete","dreams","following-your-heart","future","happiness","indecision","intuition","journeys","joy","life","love","novels","peace","relationships-101","stories","taking-chances","travel","true-love","whole"],"id":26201,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Most people believe the journey they begin with Christ goes forward, but that is not how he works. A spiritual life is not cutting ties with people, in order to walk clean in the future. The journey home isn't running away from obstacles. It is learning to stand where you are now and handle people, assert yourself, set boundaries and never feel your happiness is dependent on another person's approval of your choices, beliefs or spiritual needs.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["apologizing","clarity","closure","dealing","denial","false-expectations","life","living-for-god","lost","maturity","moving-forward","restitution","running-away"],"id":34070,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When the picture is too close to your face you lose the sight, when the future is too close to your face you see the light.","author":"Mohlalefi j motsima","tags":["closure","future","hope","optometric","picture","sight"],"id":49195,"author_id":"Mohlalefi+j+motsima"},{"text":"Some people can’t be in your life because they don’t have the power to help you improve it. That doesn’t mean you don’t wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they are on Chapter five. Maybe, it is just enough to meet at the crossroads in life and agree to take separate paths, then with a cheshire grin you both look back and shout, “Beat you to the top of the mountain”, followed by the funnest sprint of both of your lives.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beginnings","change","closure","crossroads","different","different-lives","different-paths","endings","ends","evolution","evolve","experiences","forgiveness","freedom","friend","future","goals","grateful","happiness","happy-for-others","healed","healing","inner-peace","journeys","joy","learning","letting-go","life","life-lessons","living","moving-on","no-regrets","paths","peace","plans","playful-banter","positive","realism","reality","rescues","see-clearly","stages-of-growth","staying-positive","stories","the-future","the-past","timing","transition","tsloama","well","well-wishing","wellness"],"id":56657,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are.","author":"Rachael Wade","tags":["acceptance","closure","death","denial","grief","loss"],"id":69761,"author_id":"Rachael+Wade"},{"text":"Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["battles","closure","fights","forgiveness","healing","hurt","ignored","lack-of-communication","living-with-pain","not-forgetting","not-knowing","not-letting-go","resentment","time","timing","unresolved-issues","waiting","wondering","wounds"],"id":73677,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Words matter, but what matters more than words is forgiveness and compassion.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["christ","closure","compassion","forgiveness","letting-go","love","reaching-out","rescuers","sermons","understanding"],"id":78598,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["anxiety","bad-dreams","closure","dreams","fear","nightmares","recurring-nightmares","worry","worrying"],"id":130413,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you much to do it. I’d rather apologize for something I didn’t really care about, and leave someone on Earth wishing me well, than to be stubborn and have that someone hoping that some alien would slurp out my brains. Call it karmic insurance.","author":"John Scalzi","tags":["alien","apologize","care","closure","cost","earth","feel","insurance","karmic","people","stubborn","well"],"id":131366,"author_id":"John+Scalzi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}