{"quotes":[{"text":"People with anxiety and trust issues find themselves drawn to people of consistency because they feel safe with someone who is predictable. However, that doesn’t cure their problem. The anxious person still remains the same because anxiety is a wave that crashes on the shore every time an unpredictable circumstance challenges their expectations and comfort zone.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["acceptance","attitude","beauty","beginnings","confidence","difference","different","future","insecure","insecurity","integrity","letting-go","moving-on","not-caring","personality","pride","proud","quality","self-acceptance","self-love","special","unique"],"id":47512,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When you are being judged by someone that has no idea who you are always remember this: Dogs always bark at strangers and usually there is always some wacko neighbor that wants to try out their new gun on an intruder.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bias","bigotry","blinded","discriminatin","dogs","hatred","humor","ignorance","judgement","neighbors","not-caring","prejudice","sarcasim","self-absorbed","stay-positive","strangers","uneducated","wacko","witch-hunts"],"id":79108,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The hardest thing for a sane person to do is not care what anyone thinks, although everyone swears by it, hence our glorification of insanity.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["confidence","glorification","insanity","insecurity","not-caring","philosophy","psychology","sanity","security"],"id":79109,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.","author":"Shannon L. 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What's sadder is when they are Christian.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["assuming","blaming","branding","communication","denying-feelings","dishonorable","facts","fear","gossiping","guessing","hurting-people","hypocrisy","ignoring","judgement","lack-of-communication","male-ego","not-caring","not-knowing","opinionated","overthinking","paranoia","saddness","truthfullness"],"id":153711,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The gut is the seat of all feeling. Polluting the gut not only cripples your immune system, but also destroys your sense of empathy, the ability to identify with other humans.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathy","attitude","brain","care","caring","compassion","conscience","desensitize","desensitized","emotion","emotions","empathetic","empathy","feelings","gut","humans","identify","immune-system","immunity","medicine","mind","nervous-system","neurological","not-caring","reasoning","relate","sensitive","spirituality","sympathy"],"id":155364,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}