{"quotes":[{"text":"The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.","author":"Albrecht Durer","tags":["artist","opinion","overwhelmed "],"id":17633,"author_id":"Albrecht+Durer"},{"text":"But there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers.","author":"John Green","tags":["firecrackers","overwhelmed","supernovae","thoughts"],"id":39393,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"I repeat one of my mantras. 'This is not happening. This is not real. This did not happen to you. That was someone else.","author":"Emily Andrews","tags":["coping","denial","emotions","mantra","mental illness","overwhelmed","reality","unhealthy"],"id":47479,"author_id":"Emily+Andrews"},{"text":"One of the paradoxical and transformative aspects of implicit traumatic memory is that once it is accessed in a resourced way (through the felt sense), it, by its very nature, changes. Out of the shattered fragments of her deeply injured psyche, Jody discovered and nurtured a nascent, emergent self. From the ashes of the frantically activated, hypervigilant, frozen, traumatized girl of twenty-five years ago, Jody began to reorient to a new, less threatening world. Gradually she shaped into a more fluid, resilient, woman, coming to terms with the felt capacity to fiercely defend herself when necessary, and to surrender in quiet ecstasy.","author":"Peter A. Levine","tags":["body","fear","fight flight","freeze","frozen","frozen-in-time","healing","healing-trauma","memory","mental-health","mental-illness","mind","overwhelmed","posttraumatic-stress-disorder","ptsd","terror","trauma","traumatized","treatment"],"id":51455,"author_id":"Peter+A.+Levine"},{"text":"German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship.","author":"Suzanne Fields","tags":["rules","doing","overwhelmed "],"id":58296,"author_id":"Suzanne+Fields"},{"text":"I cut all my words out. My heart was too full of them.","author":"Holly Goldberg Sloan","tags":["emotion","loss","non verbal","overwhelmed"],"id":79310,"author_id":"Holly+Goldberg+Sloan"},{"text":"When life gets hectic and you feel overwhelmed, take a moment to focus on the people and things you are most grateful for. When you have an attitude of gratitude, frustrating troubles will fall by the wayside.","author":"Dana Arcuri","tags":["adversity","adversity","attitude","attitude of gratitude","attitude toward life","courage","devotional","encouragement","faith","faith-in-god","faith","frustrations","grateful","grateful-attitude","gratefulness","gratefulness","hardships","harvest-of-hope","hope","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopefulness","inspiring","life","life","obstacles","overwhelmed","positive-attitude","positive-thinking","troubles"],"id":85176,"author_id":"Dana+Arcuri"},{"text":"His head .. It exploded. As if someone had scooped out his brains and put a hand grenade in his skull.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["headache","overwhelmed","thoughts"],"id":106882,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"The windowpane was freezing, but I was pressing myself against it anyway, like one of those dazzled little kids at the aquarium, the ones that look like they want to melt through the glass, like they're about to swoon from an overdose of beauty.","author":"Alyson Foster","tags":["beauty","overwhelmed"],"id":116978,"author_id":"Alyson+Foster"},{"text":"...If you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["overwhelmed","twitter","wisdom","writer","writer s block","writers"],"id":123520,"author_id":"John+Geddes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":37,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}