{"quotes":[{"text":"A joyful life, life of contentment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-life","chrisitian-life","christian","contentment-and-attitude","happiness-life","happyquotes","joyful","joyful-thankful","life-and-living","life","living-your-best-life","thankful"],"id":1320,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Create your best life with your consciously chosen thoughts, words, and actions.","author":"Amy Leigh Mercree","tags":["action","best-life","inspirational","life","living","about-life","of-the-day","of-the-week","to-start-the-day","twitter","thoughts","words"],"id":9693,"author_id":"Amy+Leigh+Mercree"},{"text":"Life is great with positive outlook on life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-life","great-life","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","positive-life","positive","positive-thinking","positive-thoughts","spiritual-insights","spiritual","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":27523,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Unhappiness and dissatisfaction with life are common themes in the American culture today.Folks sometimes mistake my meaning when I say, “You have the freedom of choice and the ability to create your best life”, because they all too often rush to drop everything that is weighing them down. They quit the job, ditch the unhappy marriage, cut out negative friends and family, get out of Dodge, etc. I do not advocate such hastiness; in fact, I believe that rash decision-making leads to more problems further down the road. Another unsatisfying job manifests; another unhappy relationship results. These people want a new environment, yet the same negative energy always seems to occupy it.\tThis is because transformation is all about the internal shift, not the external. Any blame placed on outside sources for our unhappiness will forever perpetuate that unhappiness. Pointing the finger is giving away your power of choice and the ability to create our best life. We choose: “That person is making me unhappy” vs. “I make myself happy.”\tWhen you are in unhappy times of lack and feelings of separation – great! Sit there and be with it. Find ways to be content with little. Find ways to be happy with your Self. As we reflect on the lives of mystics past and present, it is not the things they possess or the relationships they share that bring them enlightenment – their light is within. The same light can bring us unwavering happiness (joy).\tLove, Peace, Joy – these three things all come from within and have an unwavering flame – life source – that is not dependent on the conditions of the outside world. This knowing is the power and wisdom that the mystics teach us that we are all capable of achieving.\tWhen I say, “You have the freedom of choice and the ability to create your best life”, I am not referring to external conditions; I am referring to the choice you have to look inward and discover the ability to transform the lead of the soul into gold.\tTransformation is an inner journey of the soul. Why? Because, as we mentioned above, wherever we go, ourselves go with us. Thus, quitting the job, dumping relationships, etc. Will not make us happy because we have forgotten the key factor that makes or breaks our happiness: ourselves.\tWhen we find, create, and maintain peace, joy, and love within ourselves, we then gain the ability to embrace the external world with the same emotions, perspective, and vibration. This ability is a form of enlightenment. It is the modern man’s enlightenment that transforms an unsatisfying life into one of fulfillment.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["best-life","career","choices","consciousness","creating-your-own-reality","creation","creativity","dissatisfaction","energy","enlightenment","freedom","fulfillment","growth","happiness","inner-peace","inspirational","internal-self","journey","joy","love","moving-forward","moving-on","psychology","reality","satisfaction","self-love","soul","spiritual","transformation","unhappiness","wisdom","zen"],"id":36342,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"Find your passion and live it.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-life","educational-philosophy","happy-soul","inspirational-life","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","live-your-life","living-life","motivation","passion","seeking-fate","self-motivation"],"id":71184,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Life will be empty without great stories to read.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-life","education","great-stories","history","inspirational","lessons-learnt","life","life-and-living","literary","literature","living-life","love-story","motivational","read","stories","writing-life"],"id":73499,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Keep the faith and be hopeful for the future.Our best life are ahead of us.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-days","best-life","best-life","future","future-inspirational","future-of-man","future-plans","healing","health","healthy-habits","healthy-living","hope-and-despair","hope-and-faith","hope-and-healing","hope-for-each-day","hope-lailah-gifty-akita","hopeful","joyful","joyful","joyful","keep-hope","keep-learning","keep-on-going","keeping-faith","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","life-ahead","life-and-living","life","spiritual"],"id":86188,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Keep the faith and be hopeful for the future.Our best life are ahead of us.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-days","best-life","best-life","future","future-inspirational","future-of-man","future-plans","healing","health","healthy-habits","healthy-living","hope-and-despair","hope-and-faith","hope-and-healing","hope-for-each-day","hope-lailah-gifty-akita","hopeful","joyful","joyful","joyful","keep-hope","keep-learning","keep-on-going","keeping-faith","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","life-ahead","life-and-living","life","spiritual"],"id":86188,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Whenever the opportunity exist, we must give our very best.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achievement","best-life","inspirational","lessons-learnt","opportunity","positive-attitude","self-help"],"id":97403,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If you want to be a good parent then be a great leader. You should live a life with passion for someone and something. The legacy you leave your children shouldn't be how you suffered in gratitude for a life you had no passion for. Rather, it should be how grateful you are to a God that believes fairytales can come true because they came true for you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["achieving-dreams","attitude","best-life","choices","creating-miracles","example","fairytales","grateful","honest-life","honesty","legacy","love","martyrs","miracles","self-respect","stayingpositiveu-com","the-best-life","true-responsibility-to-kids"],"id":101579,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}