{"author":"Mitch Albom","author_id":"Mitch+Albom","total_quotes":278,"quotes":[{"text":"Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["belief","hard-work","love","success"],"id":2907,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["childhood","past"],"id":2946,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["inspirational","life","music"],"id":3393,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["bottom","death","difference","give-up","giving-up","ground-floor","life","loss","point","purpose","suicide","unheard"],"id":3771,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["memories"],"id":5635,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"If you really want it, then you'll make your dream happen.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["dreams"],"id":7298,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["forgiveness"],"id":8669,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["inspirational","loneliness"],"id":10445,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["find","important","ordinary","time"],"id":10884,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Now that child reminds me of something our sages taught. When a baby comes into the world, it's hands are clenched, right? Like this?'He made a fist.'Why? Because a baby, not knowing any better, wants to grab everything, to say 'The whole world is mine.''But when an old person dies, how does he do so? With his hands open. Why? Because he has learned the lesson.'What lesson? I asked.He stretched open his empty fingers.'We can take nothing with us.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["inspirational-life"],"id":11484,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":278,"pages":28,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}