{"quotes":[{"text":"Absolute freedom comes when we make the choice to wake up and master our individual minds, bodies, hearts, and spirits. When we have this true freedom, we no longer act upon our impulsive thoughts or emotions. We gain the capability of controlling them within ourselves, which unlocks our greatest potential to create, transmute, and transcend the Mundane reality.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["consciousness","create","creativity","emotions","freedom","freedom-of-expression","growth","heart","impulse-control","impulsivity","inner-peace","inspirational","love","mind-body-spirit","potential","psychology","reality","self-control","self-improvement","spiritual","transcendence","wisdom","zen"],"id":139476,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person’s life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["conforming","conformity-and-attitude","identity","impulse","impulse-control","impulsive","impulsiveness","impulsivity","independence","individual","individualism","individuality","instinct","instinctive","liberation","love-hate","love-hate","love-hate-relationship","personal-development","personal-growth","personal-liberty","personality","personality-development","personality","rejecting","self-acceptance","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-identity","self-realization","society","super-ego","traditionalism"],"id":172447,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"You may marry Miss Grey for her fifteen pounds but you will always be my Willoughby. My nightmare. My sorrow. My past. My mistake. My regret. My love.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anxiety","betrayal","cruelty","dignity","false-love","fear","games","humor","impulsivity","jane-austen","love","maryann","miss-gray","pain","romance","self-worth","sense-and-sensibility","settling","sorrow","unrequited-love","willoughby"],"id":237319,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I loved it when my heart beat quickly and erratically. Yet I found this performance, which was deeply poetic, more enjoyable.","author":"Raymond Radiguet","tags":["art","impulsivity","insanity","performance"],"id":387242,"author_id":"Raymond+Radiguet"},{"text":"Not enough people realize that ADHD is not a disorder about loss of focus. It is a disorder of loss of emotional control, which is triggered by outside influences, self-esteem and our interpretation of events. Whether this is positive or negative it triggers us to hyper focus on what consumes our thoughts. Staying positive is critical and distancing oneself from hurtful people is essential, in order to live a life with purpose.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adhd","distance","healing","holding-on","impulsivity","love","mood-swings","overthinking","reacting","reactor","staying-strong","thoughts","trying","unmedicated"],"id":463199,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}