{"author":"Stella Payton","author_id":"Stella+Payton","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"If I believe my ability is small, then my efforts will be shallow and my push weak. If I think I am not capable, I will not try with energy. Without strong belief, I won’t seek the knowledge required to achieve my goals. I will not launch out into the deep or push against obstacles with the force that confidence brings.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["ability","belief","capable","confidence","effort","energy","knowledge","obstacles","push","weak"],"id":22601,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"People take ownership of sickness and disease by saying things like MY high blood pressure MY diabetes, MY heart disease, MY depression, MY! MY! MY! Don't own it because it doesn't belong to you!","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["breast","cancer","depression","diabetes","disease","heart-disease","high-blood-pressure","ownership","sickness"],"id":26619,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["breath","change","expand","growth","relax"],"id":56753,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"It is a dangerous position to be in when you can't see, can't hear and won't listen...","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["caution","danger","guide","harm","instruction","listen","place","position","warning"],"id":64110,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"Value all relationships for the lessons they teach. Make sure you learn the lessons well. If not you will repeat those mistakes over and over.Focus on the kind of relationship you do want! Surround yourself with people who manifest those characteristics. Avoid and eliminate negativity at all cost.Become a producer of that which is positive.Look for the good in every situation and praise it. Talk about it \u0026 be about it. Be about only good things.Create and manifest around you joy and peace and happiness. Let the presence of God be your model. Gods' kingdom consists of 3 things, righteousness, peace and joy in Gods words. When you become a positive producer, you will begin to attract what you produced ---- positives!","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["become","character","create","focus","goals","good","lessons","mistakes","negativity","positive","praise","relationships","repeat","situation","things","values-in-life"],"id":94048,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"What dreams lie dormant hidden in the womb of your soul, quietly waiting, incubating seeking opportunity to come forth? Like the female cycle that comes every 28 days, over and over again, dreams come to rest in the soil of your mind. They compel you. They disturb you. They haunt you with visions of possibility. They prompt you to walk restlessly through life knowing that you may someday stop, listen and decide to nourish them with faith and action. Yield to the silent urging. Listen. Hear. Receive.Let the dream speak. For it will burst forth from the womb of your spirit. It frees into existence something that lives, brooding in the corner your mind. Hold the seed. Grow the seed. Birth the seed. And life will begin anew.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["birth","brooding","destiny","dream","harbor","harvest","hatch","incubate","listen","purpose","rest","seeds","soil","still"],"id":114594,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Change will come into my room and rearrange my tidy world. Then like dominoes, one things changed falls upon another until it feels like the world is collapsing around me. But when I yield, when I surrender to the necessary change, I can stand back and look at the beautiful picture created by what seemed to be my world falling apart.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["beauitiful","change","dominoes","fail","falling-apart","falter","opportunity","puzzle","surrender","yield"],"id":134510,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"The whole point to New Years is not just to have a new year. But that we should be new, better and different people. That is why we exercise to RE-NEW our bodies. That is why we write GOALS to get a Renewed sense of our potential. That is why we make RE-SOLUTIONS because we resolve that there are solutions inside of us that we have not tapped into. So don't waste each New Years season. Maximize it! Start fresh using a new perspective for it will enable you to tap into a new season with greater capacity.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["capacity","do-over","exercise","goals","maximize","new-years-eve","potential","renewed","resolution"],"id":168174,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"Allocate your resources wisely for all men have been endowed with abilities that are more than sufficient to accomplish even the greatest of their dreams.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["ability","accomplishment","accomplishments","allocation","attitude","business","dream","dreaming","endow","resources","stella-payton","sufficient","wisdom"],"id":193404,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"},{"text":"Its all about perception, that is how you look at. Your own thoughts and outlook defines whether it is good or bad. And your definition determines your response.","author":"Stella Payton","tags":["approach","attitude","belief","concept","conviction","direction","doctrine","dogma","feeling","focus","frame-of-mind","hypothesis","idea","judgment","notion","opinion","outlook","perspective","persuasion","philosophy","point-of-view","sentiment","stance","standpoint","theory-stance","thinking","viewpoint","views","vision","way-of-thinking"],"id":203937,"author_id":"Stella+Payton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}