{"quotes":[{"text":"I think timing is better left up to God to decide then religious leaders. I once met a man that brought his wife flowers in the hospital. They held hands, kissed and were as affectionate as any cute couple could be. They were both in their eighties. I asked them how long they were married. I expected them to tell me fifty years or longer. To my surprise, they said only five years. He then began to explain to me that he was married thirty years to someone that didn’t love him, and then he remarried a second time only to have his second wife die of cancer, two years later. I looked at my patient (his wife) sitting in the wheelchair next to him smiling. She added that she had been widowed two times. Both of her marriages lasted fifteen years. I was curious, so I asked them why they would even bother pursuing love again at their age. He looked at me with astonishment and said, “Do you really think that you stop looking for a soulmate at our age? Do you honestly believe that God would stop caring about how much I needed it still, just because I am nearing the end of my life? No, he left the best for last. I have lived through hell, but if I only get five years of happiness with this woman then it was worth the years of struggle I have been through.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["choosing","elderly","grace","happiness","love","marriage","misleading","patience","patients","perspective","relationships","see","soulmates","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","struggles","timing","true-love","truth","understand","waiting","wisdom"],"id":33940,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"To be acknowledged that we do not believe in their misleading notion and fallacy, today, tomorrow and forever even if it costs us our life. They have suffocated people for hundreds of years and if we don’t stop them today no one else would do it tomorrow.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["atheism","believe","fallacy","misleading","notion","religion"],"id":152004,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["assume","assuming","compensate","compensation","delude","deluded","errant","error","give","give-and-take","giving","loss","losses","misguided","misleading","misled","pay-off","return","reward","rewarded","sacrifice","sacrificial","sacrificing","self-centered","selfish","selfishness"],"id":172933,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and “dropped” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is false and misleading. Many if not most diagnostic entities have been renamed or have had their names modified as psychiatry changes in its conceptualizations and classifications of mental illnesses. When the DSM decided to go with “Dissociative Identity Disorder” it put “(formerly multiple personality disorder)” right after the new name to signify that it was the same condition. It’s right there on page 526 of DSM-IV-R. There have been four different names for this condition in the DSMs over the course of my career. I was part of the group that developed and wrote successive descriptions and diagnostic criteria for this condition for DSM-III-R, DSM–IV, and DSM-IV-TR.While some patients have been hurt by the impact of material that proves to be inaccurate, there is no evidence that scientifically demonstrates the prevalence of such events. Most material alleged to be false has been disputed by someone, but has not been proven false.Finally, however intriguing the idea of encouraging forgetting troubling material may seem, there is no evidence that it is either effective or safe as a general approach to treatment. There is considerable belief that when such material is put out of mind, it creates symptoms indirectly, from “behind the scenes.” Ironically, such efforts purport to cure some dissociative phenomena by encouraging others, such as Dissociative Amnesia.","author":"Richard P. Kluft","tags":["diagnosis","disinformation","dissociative-amnesia","dissociative-identity-disorder","dsm","evidence","false","hysteria","hysterican-neurosis","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misinformation","misleading","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","psychiatric-bible","psychiatry","rumor"],"id":181347,"author_id":"Richard+P.+Kluft"},{"text":"Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["desperate","force","lock-and-key","misleading","relationship","wants-more-than-a-friendship"],"id":210162,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.","author":"Navonne Johns","tags":["assumptions","fake-people","hypocrite","image-branding","judgmental","misleading","religion"],"id":214721,"author_id":"Navonne+Johns"},{"text":"Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the 'meaner' meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["debate","debates","debating","feminism","intention","meaning","meaningful","meaningfulness","meanings","misguided","misleading","misreading","misunderstanding","nothing","politics","use","useful","usefulness","uses"],"id":233251,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Mariac tells us about the books he's read, the painters he's liked, the plays he's seen. He finds himself by looking in the works of others. He defines his own faith by a passionate anger against Gide the Luciferian. Reading his 'memories' is like meeting a man on a train who says, 'Don't look at me; that's misleading. If you want to know what I'm like, wait until we're in a tunnel, and then study my reflection in the window.' You wait, and look, and catch a face against a shifting background of sooty walls, cables, and sudden brickwork. The transparent shape flickers and jumps, always a few feet away. You become accustomed to its existence, you move with its movements; and though you know its presence is conditional, you feel it to be permanent. Then there is a wail from ahead, a roar and a burst of light; the face is gone for ever.","author":"Julian Barnes","tags":["anger","condition","existence","life","misleading","passion"],"id":268467,"author_id":"Julian+Barnes"},{"text":"We stay the same as we've always been, keeping to the path we've walked our whole lives. Paths that carry so much importance and perceived stability that we are utterly convinced it is the only one to walk – that anyone not walking it with us is being misled.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["acceptance","caution","change","ethics","habit","hear","heard","importance","important","life","lifetime","listening","misleading","misled","morality","morals","others","path","people","persuasion","respect","stability"],"id":280308,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"The dimple in his left cheek was ironic-it gave the impression that he was sweet as a cupcake. (Dark City Lights).","author":"Elaine Kagan","tags":["anthologies","appearances","comedy","funny","humor","humorous","irony","misleading","short-stories"],"id":350330,"author_id":"Elaine+Kagan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}