{"quotes":[{"text":"Unhappiness comes from living the life of two people--the one people want you to be and the one you want to be.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["becoming-better","bravery","confidence","finding-joy","guilt-trips","healing","healing-the-emotional-self","joy","living-life-for-you","peer-pressure","unhappiness","unhappy","unity","your-life"],"id":21277,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The well from which we draw our love to give to other people, should never be only as deep as the well wherein resides the love we have already received in our lives. The cycle must be broken. The former well must be abandoned and we must create a love in our hearts for others, from the bricks and the mortar of our own visions. Our raw materials must come not only from what we received; but our raw materials must come from what we envision to create. From your desires and your visions— your bricks and mortar should materialize. And if your former well is completely empty and dry— so what— you don't owe it to your past, to the people who hurt you, to make that emptiness and that void, your place for drawing water from!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["becoming-better","courage","forgiveness","how-to-love-people","inspirational-life","letting-go-of-your-past","loving-people","overcoming-your-past","rising-above-your-past","victory-in-life","victory-over-your-past"],"id":56758,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["be-better","be-real","becoming-better","being-real","change","change-yourself","genuineness","guidance","hypocrisy","hypocrite","inspirational","real","real-talk","the-human-condition","wisdom"],"id":73259,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"I want to learn how to speak to anyone at any time and make us both feel a little bit better, lighter, richer, with no commitments of ever meeting again. I want to learn how to stand wherever with whoever and still feel stable. I want to learn how to unlock the locks to our minds, my mind, so that when I hear opinions or views that don’t match up with mine, I can still listen and understand. I want to burn up lifeless habits of following maps and to-do lists, concentrated liquids to burn my mind and throatand I want to go back to the way nature shaped me. I want to learn to go on well with whatever I have in my hands at the momentin a natural state of mind,certain like the sea.I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["become","becoming-better","better","certain","charlotte-eriksson","comfort","commitment","develop","friends","friendship","growing","learn","love","map","meeting","mind","nature","ocean","opinions","rhythm","richer","sea","self-development","songwriter","speak","state-of-mind","the-glass-child","view","writer","young","youth"],"id":98990,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"We must become the person who is ready to accept the thing/s that we want. Sometimes, what you want is already waiting for you, alongside the person that you are capable of becoming. Alongside the destined you. So in between here and there, you have that journey, that process, of becoming that person. Wiser, stronger, gentler. We think that to attain what we want, means simply to achieve what we wish to attain. But if we could only see ourselves-- our destined selves-- already there in the future, standing hand-in-hand with our desires, we would always know that our worthy desires are objects that call us unto a higher calling, a higher state of existence.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["becoming-a-better-person","becoming-better","becoming-who-you-re-meant-to-be","growth","inspirational","journey-to-yourself","journeys-in-life","wisdom","wisdom-words"],"id":112254,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"The 7 Steps to Transformation:1. Dream it.2. Envision it.3. Think it.4. Grow it.5. Become it.6. Live it.7. OWN it.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["become-better","become-better-than-your-old-self","become-fearless","becoming","becoming-better","dream","dream-big","dreaming","dreams","dreams-and-wishes","dreams-do-come-true","dreams-inspirational","dreams","envision","envisioning-the-future","envisioning-the-prize-ahead","envisions","germany-kent","germany-kent","germany-kent","growth","growth-mindset","growth-process","growth","hope-guru","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-about-life","inspiring","life-lessons","life-lessons-life","life-lessons","life-lessons-value-of-life-truth","life-lessons-wisdom","live-an-extraordinary-life","live-and-learn","live-and-let-live","live-in-the-here-and-now","live-life","live-life-so-well","live-your-best-life","motivate","motivation","motivation","motivational","motivational-inspirational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","own-life","ownership","owning-it","perspective","perspective-on-life","perspective","perspectives-on-life","perspectives","real-talk","secrets-of-success","secrets-to-success","the-hope-guru","think-rich","thinking-for-change","thinking-outside-of-the-box","thinking-positive","thinking-process","thinking","thinking-with-a-great-mind","trans","transformation","transformational-speakers","transforming"],"id":135724,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"If what you are able to give to others, in this life, is only proportionate to what you received from people in your past— it only means one thing. You are a victim of life's circumstances, a direct and utter equivalent of what has been done to you. Rise above and become more! Be better than what happened to you.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["becoming-better","becoming-more","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","rising-above-your-past","victim-mentality","wisdom"],"id":138739,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Sometimes, there is a lot of darkness in this world. As I see it, you have two choices. You can be a part of that darkness or you can be the light. Be the light.","author":"Tom Giaquinto","tags":["becoming-better","good","goodness","higher-power","human","humanity","inspiration","inspirational","light","motivation","motivational"],"id":143143,"author_id":"Tom+Giaquinto"},{"text":"Few experiences are more satisfying than becoming someone we always imagined we could be.","author":"Gina Greenlee","tags":["authentic-living","authentic-self","be-who-you-are","becoming-better","becoming-who-you-re-meant-to-be","becoming-your-best","believe","imagination"],"id":147139,"author_id":"Gina+Greenlee"},{"text":"All men are equal but their graces and abilities separates them and makes certain things possible for them than for others.","author":"Kingsley Opuwari Manuel","tags":["ability","becoming-better","christianity","gifts","grace","greatness","increase","inspirational","possibilities","power","self-development","self-improvement","spiritual","wealth"],"id":168087,"author_id":"Kingsley+Opuwari+Manuel"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}