{"quotes":[{"text":"Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen.","author":"Ron Baratono","tags":["friends","god","jesus","loved-ones","sickness"],"id":12098,"author_id":"Ron+Baratono"},{"text":"Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.","author":"Lynn Hubbard","tags":["flesh","loved-ones","spirit"],"id":16540,"author_id":"Lynn+Hubbard"},{"text":"Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... And this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... Be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. Seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change again and again; when you see them, love life in a form that is not your own and be indulgent toward those who are growing old, who are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.... And don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["aloneness","change","common-ground","faith","love","loved-ones","relationships","solitude"],"id":23866,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subject, I did not consider it advisable to dwell, for the details of what I had undergone belonged to a portion of my existence in which I never expected my godmother to take a share. Into what a new region would such a confidence have led that hale, serene nature! The difference between her and me might be figured by that between the stately ship cruising safe on smooth seas, with its full complement of crew, a captain gay and brave, and venturous and provident; and the life-boat, which most days of the year lies dry and solitary in an old, dark boat-house, only putting to sea when the billows run high in rough weather, when cloud encounters water, when danger and death divide between them the rule of the great deep. No, the 'Louisa Bretton' never was out of harbour on such a night, and in such a scene: her crew could not conceive it; so the half-drowned life-boat man keeps his own counsel, and spins no yarns.","author":"Charlotte Brontë","tags":["confidence","healing","loved-ones","suffering","villette"],"id":29113,"author_id":"Charlotte+Bront%C3%AB"},{"text":"Three, 300, or 3,000 - these are the number of unknown days, a week, a year, or a decade, each far too precious little and yet, poignantly too much at the same time, to see an irrevocably declined loved one languish and suffer. That fear-ridden, irreversible release lingers in the doorway, but hesitates for reasons we don't understand, leaving us to weep with a mixture of angst and gratitude all at the same time. It is finally ushered all the way in, to comfort and carry our loved one to that Better Place. When the time finally comes, we can be enveloped in a warm cloak of long-awaited acceptance and peace that eases our own pain. It quiets the grief which has moaned inside of us, at least some, every single one of those bittersweet days, weeks... Or years.","author":"Connie Kerbs","tags":["acceptance","aging-parents","bittersweet-life","death","death-and-dying","grief-and-loss","loved-ones","peace","suffering","terminal-illness"],"id":35401,"author_id":"Connie+Kerbs"},{"text":"Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would die because you didn't continue fighting today.","author":"Robert Liparulo","tags":["continue-fighting","fight","loved-ones"],"id":42765,"author_id":"Robert+Liparulo"},{"text":"When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, 'What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["best-friends","betrayal","boyfriends","break-ups","dating","divorce","family","friends","friendships","girlfriends","lost-love","love","loved-ones","lovers","marriage","moving-on","parents","ponderings","reflection","relationships","romance","senseless","soulmates","true-love","unrequited-love"],"id":61772,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Real loved one's aren't afraid, and will suggest to you, what's in your best interest because they wouldn't want too see you suffer the consequences of, sideways, emotional impulse(s). To see you crash and burn, time after time, is the gratification of 'yes folk' lurking in your corner. You may not agree, but always consider the voice(s) that have consistently kept it real.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["advice","beloved","counsel","counseling","courage","emotions","enemy","failure","fake","false-witness","falsehood","friendship","honesty","listen","loved-ones","respect","strength","success","truth","wisdom","wise"],"id":62052,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"When the value of a relation gets lower than the amount of thought and time needed to maintain or resurrect them, It withers away.","author":"EverSkeptic","tags":["change","friendship","love","loved-ones","relationship"],"id":62244,"author_id":"EverSkeptic"},{"text":"I've decided that there isn't much difference in the way we treat our siblings and the way we treat our special someones. But at the end of it all we know our siblings have to forgive us...Or they'll never be able to borrow our car.","author":"Emma Daley","tags":["family-relationship","loved-ones","marriage","relationships"],"id":70391,"author_id":"Emma+Daley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}