{"quotes":[{"text":"Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activist","adulterers","altruism","being-human","bias","caring","cheaters","commuicator","communications","community-member","compassion","complainers","crime","earth","empathetic","environment","forgiving","helper","helping-out","homeless","human-trafficing","hypocrite","kindness","liars","marine-conservation","medical-missions","mental-disorder-bias","mental-health-stigma","morals","oceans","open","outdoors","pollution","respect-for-the-world","respect-life","respect-nature","service","service-project","simplistic","social-issues","theif","theology","uneducated","values","vulnerable"],"id":132588,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Your blessings lay beyond your fear.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["blessed","career","confidence","courage","dreams","fear","fearless","future","gideon","goals","god-s-blessings","happiness","inspiration","jobs","joy","life","life-mission","life-purpose","living","love","medical-missions","missions","no-regrets","overcoming","ruth"],"id":205750,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activist","aging","beautiful-personatlity","beautiful-soul","charity","communicators","community","compassion","empathetic","fathers","friendships","givers","giving-heart","helping-out","homeless-tent-community","inner-beauty","inspiration","inspirational","jealousy","judgement","loving","marine-life-conservation","medical-missions","mothers","motivators","openess","outward-beauty","people-of-action","perspectives","philosophy","prayer","real-people","reflection","rescuers","search-and-rescue","service","takers","tender","time","true-beauty","truth","vanity","writing"],"id":214835,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","activist","administering","animal-rights","blessed","brand","bright-light","chasity","choices","christian-missions","church","communicator","compassionate","concern-for-others","confident","daughter-of-god","daughters","defending-oceans","devotion","dignity","empowering-women","example","fearless","forest","freedom","god-s-plan","god-s-protection","god-s-warrior","good-heart","good-hearted","good-hearts","goodness","guidance","happiness","helping-patients","helping-the-poor","homeless","honest","inner-beauty","inspire","inspire-others","inspiring-youth","integrity","intelligence","letting-go","love","loves-children","loving","mates","medical-missions","medical-needs","merciful","mexico","motto","moving-on","nicaragua","not-hackers","not-illegal","oceans","partners","peaceful-warriors","protected","protecting-animals","protects-children","pure","quality","relationships","rescuers","rescuing-others","respect","rise-higher","rising-higher","ruth","sar","saving-lives","selective","self-respect","service","serving-homeless","shelters","shine","shine-your-light","soulmates","spouses","staying-positive","stayingpositiveuniversity-com","the-light-to-others","the-one","the-queen","the-sun","to-be-respeted","true-beauty","value","values","vocal","warrior","warrior-women","wisdom","words-to-live-by","worth","worth-the-fight"],"id":227234,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activist","caring","communication","compassion","difficult-people","homeless","hospitals","love","medical-missions","mental-disorders","mentally-ill","monsters","patients","seeing","service","stories","time"],"id":299147,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Observing the medical histories of various neurological syndromes is like observing the fascinating nerve cells of the human brain in action, while they construct what we so proudly call the Human Consciousness. They remind us of the overwhelming aspects of human silliness. They remind us how such a simple natural response of the human Biology, is misinterpreted as the “last surviving mystery” of this planet.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","consciousness","consciousness-explained","consciousness-mind-brain","doctors","medical","medical-history","medical-missions","medicine","medicine-doctor","mind","mind-body-spirit","pearls-of-wisdom"],"id":392026,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}