{"quotes":[{"text":"It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.","author":"J.R. Rim","tags":["be","being","being-yourself","better","better-being","better-person","better-version","betterment","person","personal-development","personal-growth","personal-responsibility","self-development","self-help"],"id":3140,"author_id":"J.R.+Rim"},{"text":"When we do not succeed to be ourselves, we finally realize that is was completely useless to exist...","author":"Hugo Pratt","tags":["being-yourself","existence"],"id":3499,"author_id":"Hugo+Pratt"},{"text":"When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.","author":"Michael Josephson","tags":["being-yourself","true","truthful"],"id":4064,"author_id":"Michael+Josephson"},{"text":"He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never shelter behind anything, are just themselves, straightforward.","author":"Arnaldur Indriðason","tags":["barriers","being-yourself","self-awareness"],"id":5141,"author_id":"Arnaldur+Indri%C3%B0ason"},{"text":"Jules was a proud little toy. She decided that she was going to work very hard to be the best wolf she could be.","author":"Julie B. Campbell","tags":["being-yourself","elephant","self-confidence","wolf"],"id":5707,"author_id":"Julie+B.+Campbell"},{"text":"He made you you—on purpose. You are the only you—ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves. He looks at us with pleasure and with mercy, and he wants us to look at ourselves with pleasure and mercy too!","author":"Stasi Eldredge","tags":["being-yourself","god-s-purpose","mercy","pleasure","you","your-purpose"],"id":12223,"author_id":"Stasi+Eldredge"},{"text":"While you might think the choices that leave no regrets behind are the minimal ones and the casual ones and the safe ones, I believe the opposite is true. Regret happens when we are still left with “what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you lay everything on the line because you believe that much that the life you have been given is the utmost calling to be answered, you don’t regret it.","author":"Stephen Lovegrove","tags":["being-yourself","believe","calling","personal-growth","regret","risk","self-help"],"id":13430,"author_id":"Stephen+Lovegrove"},{"text":"Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["accepting-yourself","being-yourself","completeness","confidence","loving-yourself","positive-thinking","self-worth","worth","worthiness"],"id":25790,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["being-your-best","being-your-true-self","being-yourself","challenge","defience","difficulties","doing-your-life-s-work","dream-job","enduring","enduring-hardships","ethical-behaviour","ethical-teaching","happiness","job","learning","obstacles","polishing","pressure","refine","refinement","resistance","searching-for-happiness","work","work-ethic","works","works-righteousness"],"id":31818,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"God is the best makeup Artist I have ever seen however, you may get an honorable mention for sprucing.","author":"Johnnie Dent Jr.","tags":["adverisity","aspiration","becoming","being-yourself","living-our-life","loving-yourself","personal-development","successful-living","training"],"id":38233,"author_id":"Johnnie+Dent+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":115,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}