{"author":"Peggy Toney Horton","author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton","total_quotes":31,"quotes":[{"text":"Remember sixteen – when all the world was new and a lifetime stretched before you like fresh snow just waiting for your footprints?","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["footprints","fresh-snow","lifetime","new","remember","sixteen"],"id":2608,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Even in death, my mother smiled—and she had every reason to do so, for I had become precisely what she hoped I would—her mirror image.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["her-mirror-image","mother","smiled"],"id":55277,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Ah, Lovely October, as you usher in the season that awakens my soul, your awesome beauty compels my spirit to soar like an leaf caught in an autumn breeze and my heart to sing like a heavenly choir.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["beauty","heavenly-choir","october","season","soul","spirit"],"id":67674,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Life is like music on a scale, shifting up and down. When your life is over, your song has been written.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["life","music","scale","song","written"],"id":74472,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Laughter is to the soul what sunshine is to a flower.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["flower","laughter","soul","sunshine"],"id":83255,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Each New Year, we have before us a brand new book containing 365 blank pages. Let us fill them with all the forgotten things from last year—the words we forgot to say, the love we forgot to show, and the charity we forgot to offer.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["blank-pages","charity","love","new-year"],"id":86288,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"What is writing, after all, except fumbling in darkness endeavoring to light a candle?","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["darkness","fumbling","light-a-candle","what-is-writing"],"id":88255,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["me-and-god","pause-button","private-place","retreat","soul"],"id":100387,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["clock","future","mothers-and-daughters","time-passing"],"id":134110,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"},{"text":"As the year comes to a close, it is a time for reflection – a time to release old thoughts and beliefs and forgive old hurts. Whatever has happened in the past year, the New Year brings fresh beginnings. Exciting new experiences and relationships await. Let us be thankful for the blessings of the past and the promise of the future.","author":"Peggy Toney Horton","tags":["blessings","future","new-experiences","new-year","promise","thankful"],"id":139688,"author_id":"Peggy+Toney+Horton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}