{"quotes":[{"text":"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","answer","ask","begin","better","betterment","compassion","compassionate","condition","conversations","converse","empathy","friend","friendship","good","hear","improvement","judge","judgement","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","know","knowledge","kojouri","listen","listener","love","love","lover","mindful","mindfulness","ourselves","quote","quotes","reply","reserve","respond","self","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","sincerely"],"id":1026,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I was broken. But it turns out that my scars were divine signs that I was granted a chance to begin again.","author":"Hannah Ashworth","tags":["again","begin","broken","carew","chance","cot","creature","divine","evolution","gloria","grant","hannah","hospital","monster","morigan","nobody","normal","scars","signs","starbrazen"],"id":1215,"author_id":"Hannah+Ashworth"},{"text":"To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started.","author":"Pablo","tags":["attitude","begin","belief","believe","blessings","discipline","finish","focus","goals","improvement","inspiration","inspirational","motivational","new-year","opportunities","perseverance","resolution","resolutions"],"id":3546,"author_id":"Pablo"},{"text":"LET THE FLAMES BEGIN!","author":"Hayley Williams","tags":["begin","flames","game","hayley","hayley-williams","hurt","let","let-the-flames-begin","paramore","revenge","vengeance"],"id":6090,"author_id":"Hayley+Williams"},{"text":"Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","achieve","achievement","begin","begin-small","beginning","big-dreams","dont-give-up","don-t-quit","dream","dream-big","dreams","food-for-thought","give-up","gold","great","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","missed-opportunity","mistake","mistook","never-give-up","opportunity","persist","persistence","personal-development","press-on","promising","rock","start","start-local","start-small"],"id":13990,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"But what is great can only begin great.","author":"Martin Heidegger","tags":["begin","beginnings","being","being-and-time","great","greatness","metaphysics","philosophy","time"],"id":19119,"author_id":"Martin+Heidegger"},{"text":"You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["begin","complete","dare","dare-to-win","do-it","end","extra","extra-mile","fight-for-it","finish","finish-it","go","imaginations","imagine","improve","improvement","improvements","inform","information","initiate","initiations","initiatives","innovate","innovation","innovations","inspiration","inspirations","inspire","intervene","intervention","interventions","invent","invention","inventions","involve","involvement","involvements","israelmore-ayivor","make-it-happen","save","saved","saved-for-work","till-all-is-done","work","works"],"id":19749,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Like a flower, feel yourself rise above and begin to open.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["awareness","be","begin","flower","inspiration","inspirational","laugh","live","love","open","peace","for-women","rise","screenwriters","smile","spiritual-growth","spirituality","truth","wisdom","women","writers"],"id":23418,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"When you are good at despising little things, you are likely to throw away the tiny match stick that has the potential of putting the entire forest on fire! Little things do carry heavy potentials!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["begin","begin-small","bush-fire","fire","food-for-thought","forest","heavy","heavy-weights","israelmore-ayivor","little","little-things","match-stick","potent","potential","potentials","start-small","tiny","try-again","weights"],"id":24202,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["able","begin","do-it-well","finish-well","food-for-thought","gentle","great","great-ending","he-will-lift-you-high","high","higher","higher-ground","highest","humble","humble-yourself","humble-yourself-before-the-lord","humility","israelmore-ayivor","lift","lord","meek","meekness","obscure","people","small","started","you"],"id":30197,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":134,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}