{"quotes":[{"text":"I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.","author":"Robin McKinley","tags":["death","grief","heartbreak","loss","sorrow"],"id":114,"author_id":"Robin+McKinley"},{"text":"I stood there feeling the lightness of my bones, knowing now this was not only lack of sleep that had transformed my bones into feathers, but my body's recognition that soon I would be leaving this place I had inhabited for one year, this place made entirely of grief.","author":"Anne Spollen","tags":["bones","grief","lightness"],"id":303,"author_id":"Anne+Spollen"},{"text":"I picture Cully tromping through that high, deep snow. That's how I feel physically from all of this. Moving through grief like it's a thick drift, exhausting but enlivening. It makes your muscles ache. It makes you feel you've inhabited your body completely.","author":"Kaui Hart Hemmings","tags":["grief"],"id":478,"author_id":"Kaui+Hart+Hemmings"},{"text":"When someone close to you dies, you feel like you might die too. It takes some of the life out of you for a time.","author":"Lisa Bedrick","tags":["depression","god","grief","jesus","mourning","pain","sadness"],"id":506,"author_id":"Lisa+Bedrick"},{"text":"The bereaved need more than just the space to grieve the loss. They also need the space to grieve the transition.","author":"Lynda Cheldelin Fell","tags":["bereavement","death","grief","hope","loss"],"id":716,"author_id":"Lynda+Cheldelin+Fell"},{"text":"Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself….","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["camera","canon","capture","film","fujifilm","grief","joy","knowledge","kodachrome","kodak","loss","love","meaning","nikon","nostalgia","past","photo","photography","romance","super-8"],"id":951,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"In some aspects losing a child is like a wall, but instead of getting over it, you must carry the wall with you, wherever you go, for as long as you live.The wall is immovable.You can’t go anywhere until you learn to move the wall.You are just stuck in the same place, forever.You can tug and tug all you want, there are days that the wall will not move.And there are days that it moves ever so slightly.Over time I have realized that in order to move forward, knowing that I must bring this wall with me, that the best way to do so is to metaphorically flood the soil near the wall with water, and have the wall float with me, instead of me having to carry it.Every act of love and kindness turns to water.Water and love can penetrate and move anything.It just takes time. I need to turn my wall into a raft.","author":"JohnA Passaro","tags":["grief","inspiration","loss-of-a-child","love","motivation"],"id":1199,"author_id":"JohnA+Passaro"},{"text":"The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.","author":"Nina George","tags":["grief","regret"],"id":1294,"author_id":"Nina+George"},{"text":"Sadness pulses out of us as we walk. I almost expect the trees to lower their branches when we pass, the stars to hand down some light. I breathe in the horsy scent of eucalyptus, the thick sugary pine, aware of each breath I take, how each one keeps me in the world a few seconds longer. I taste the sweetness of the summer air on my tongue and want to just gulp and gulp and gulp it into my body--this living, breathing, heart-beating body of mine.","author":"Jandy Nelson","tags":["grief","sadness"],"id":1328,"author_id":"Jandy+Nelson"},{"text":"People with vision sees opportunity where there is problem. They see money not problem.","author":"Patience Johnson","tags":["creativity","depression","destiny","dream","dreams","earning","endtime","family","fantasy","feminism","fiction-food-for-though","forgiveness","freedom","friends","friendship","future","grief","heart","history","humanity-humour","imagination","inspirational","intelligence-is-attractive","joy","leadership","life-and-living-life-philosophy","life","literature","living","loss","love","magic-spirit","marriage","meditation-men","mind","money","motivation","motivational","motivational","music","nature","pain","passion-peace","patience","patience-johnson","pentecost","people","politics","positive-thinking","power","prayer","psychology","purpose","quote","quotes","reading","reality-relationship","repentance","sadness","self-help","self-improvement","society","soul","spiritual","strength","time","trust-war","vision","wisdom","women","words","work","world"],"id":1374,"author_id":"Patience+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2599,"pages":260,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}