{"quotes":[{"text":"Hershey Pennsylvania was self-proclaimed as the “Sweetest Place On Earth,” but less advertised than chocolate, it was also home to one of the state’s largest Children’s Hospitals. The streets lined with Hershey Kiss–shaped streetlamps that led excited children and families on vacation to chocolate tour rides and rollercoasters were the same exact streets that led anxious children and families to x-rays and MRIs on the worsts days of their lives. Chocolate was being created on the same street that childhood diseases were being diagnosed. And that was life. The sweetest of sensations and the deepest of devastations live next door to each other.","author":"Tessa Shaffer","tags":["devastation","life-and-death","life-and-living","no-regrets","recovery","recovery-from-grief","sickness-and-diseases"],"id":27791,"author_id":"Tessa+Shaffer"},{"text":"Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.","author":"Christina Greer","tags":["binge-eating-disorder","child-loss","food-addiction","high-risk-pregnancy","infertility","miscarriage","motherhood","optimism","pcos","pregnancy-loss","recovery-from-grief"],"id":50904,"author_id":"Christina+Greer"},{"text":"Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.","author":"G. Norman Lippert","tags":["loss","recovery-from-grief","tragedy"],"id":74950,"author_id":"G.+Norman+Lippert"},{"text":"This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["broken-hearts","classic-poems","classic","compassion","faith","grief","healing-grief","hope","infinity","inspiration","inspiration-for-the-soul","inspirational","newtown-connecticut","palaces","pearls","pearls-of-wisdom","for-easter","rebirth","recovery","recovery-from-grief","resurrection","roses","savannah--and-poets","sorrow","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","survival","transformation"],"id":135256,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"If you keep your heart open, that same pain can become a purifying pain, a strengthening pain. If we choose forgiveness over bitterness, that pain can heal instead of hurt. Instead of a pain that divides, it can be a pain that binds. Instead of a pain that breaks us down, it can be a pain that builds us up.","author":"Seth Adam Smith","tags":["bitterness","forgiveness","forgiveness","healing","hurt","hurting","pain","recovery-from-grief"],"id":283986,"author_id":"Seth+Adam+Smith"},{"text":"Nothing you did could have changed anything. And that being angry and blaming yourself for not being able to control the past or the future is only going to hurt worse. If you keep thinking like this, you will only be re-inventing pain.Heaven would tell you that it’s just a little rain. And it’s not the rain that kills you, it’s the pain of wanting to control the sun.","author":"Tessa Shaffer","tags":["control-issues","control-your-thoughts","grief","grieving","heaven","heaven-has-no-regrets","heaven","inspiration","inspirational","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons-wisdom","life","loss-and-grieving","no-regrets","about-loss","rain","rain","raining","recovery-from-grief","sunshine"],"id":289810,"author_id":"Tessa+Shaffer"},{"text":"Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.","author":"Drew Myron","tags":["breathe","darkness-and-light","memory","poem","poetry","recovery-from-grief","resilience"],"id":325962,"author_id":"Drew+Myron"},{"text":"You’ve got to reach bedrock to become depressed enough before you are forced to accept the reality and enormity of the problem.","author":"Jonathan Harnisch","tags":["alone","alone","bipolar","bipolar disorder","bipolar life","bipolar","depression","depression","depression-recovery","feeling-alone","feelings","feelings-and-emotions","feelings-of-weakness","inspirational","inspirational","jonathan-harnisch","life","life-and-living","life-changing","life-experience","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","mental","mental-health","mental-illness","mood","motivation","motivational","motivational-inspirational","motivational","ptsd","and-saying","and-sayings","to-live-by","reading","reading-books","recover","recovery","recovery-from-grief","schizo","schizo-affective","schizoaffective","schizophrenia","schizophrenic","schizophrenics","self-awareness","self-help","self-improvement"],"id":395775,"author_id":"Jonathan+Harnisch"},{"text":"You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.","author":"Carrie Jones","tags":["recovery-from-grief","strength"],"id":436933,"author_id":"Carrie+Jones"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}