{"author":"K. Martin Beckner","author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner","total_quotes":21,"quotes":[{"text":"You'll never avoid every mistake. All you can do is try to do your best and live with the consequences.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["consequences","mistakes"],"id":13667,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"I've left behind so many unfinished quilts in my life, beautiful pieces of dreams and intentions never fully assembled.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["dreams","intentions","quilts","reflection","regret","success"],"id":26706,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["clocks","monuments","reflections-on-life","time","time","time-travel","watches"],"id":57000,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"I wanted to go in and tell them that, but George thought it would just be stirring up some trouble, you know, stirring up the cow pile. A cow pile may looked dried up, but if you stir it up, it can start to stink again.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["cow-pile","prejudice","stink"],"id":135609,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"It's a wonder Hell don't open up and swallow her as the highlight of the service.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["church","evil-woman"],"id":136242,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"Life’s journey does not take place down an easy roadway, as some might imagine. It takes place inside a giant house with a million doorways. Every day of our lives we are faced with decisions to make, doorways to walk through. It can be confusing at times, like walking through a carnival maze. Some decisions we make are big, some small, but they all have consequences..","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["change","choices","decisions","doorways","life"],"id":209943,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"I could just hear my mom now, 'You know those old candy cigarettes are bad for you. Next thing you know, you'll be drinking alcohol, and they'll find you dead in a ditch somewhere. I'll never be able to show my face in this town again.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["candy-cigarettes","parental-humor","sarcasm"],"id":249024,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"The world to him no longer seemed a math equation but rather a complex piece of art, a masterpiece of things not easily understood.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["art","life-changing","math","mathematics","personal-growth","science","self-discovery"],"id":250223,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"I want you to learn that if you don't keep picking at old wounds, over time they will eventually heal. Oh sure, sometimes they will leave a nasty, jagged scar, but at least it won't hurt like it did anymore, and if you don't look at it, sometimes you can almost forget it's there.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["healing","hurt","pain","wounds"],"id":305732,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"},{"text":"Initially they waited with hope, but as each hour passed, hope slipped away like the wind, the wind that as a small boy Ethan had once tried to capture with his tiny fingers.","author":"K. Martin Beckner","tags":["death","hope","loss","wind"],"id":327367,"author_id":"K.+Martin+Beckner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}