{"quotes":[{"text":"I will never accept life for what it is. I don't need an easy life. My road was meant to be hard because anything worth having in this world will take me to the very edge of myself. I will overcome everything I have ever gone through and will make my future the one God intended me to have. I will pick up the pieces of this pain and sculpt it into art. I am not ordinary and never was. I walk into my birthright as a queen with her head held high. I was born to do this!","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["1000","confidence","empowering-women","excellence","happiness","inspirational-women","joan-of-arc","joy","love","powerful-women","queen-elizabeth-i","self-respect","warrior","warrior-women","writing"],"id":27941,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"One big blow can hit and destroy any strong door in front of you. As for the 1000 feeble blows, they can’t even remove the cobwebs. Courage is the key.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["1","1000","begin","blow","cobwebs","commence","courage","destroy","door","feeble","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","key","one","remove","start","strong","thousand","weak"],"id":45130,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Dream big dreams, but start small. A journey of thousand steps begins with a step.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["1000","begin","beginning","big","big-dreams","bit-by-bit","commence","dream","dream-big","dreams","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","journey","little","little-things","small","smaller","start","step","steps","thousand","tiny"],"id":180061,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It's only 'single steps' that make a journey of 1000 miles. It means the combined effect of many steps is the equivalence of a great journey. Go, take many little steps.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["1000","1000-miles","combined","effect","equivalence","focus","food-for-thought","go","great","great-journey","israelmore-ayivor","journey","many-little-steps","many-steps","miles","one-step","persistence","repeated","single-steps","steps","take","team","team-work"],"id":276143,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Your smile can heal thousands; but your anger can kill millions. Your 'hand-shake' can encourage tens of people while your 'finger-pointing' can turn ten thousands away from you!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["10","1000","10000","1000000","anger","angry","away","encourage","finger","finger-pointing","food-for-thought","hand-shake","hatred","heal","israelmore-ayivor","kill","laugh","millions","people","smile","ten","ten-thousand","thousand","turn"],"id":305758,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}