{"quotes":[{"text":"Family and friends become oppressors the moment they teach you that loyalty is more important than what is done to people outside your social circle. What they are really saying is this: Save yourself because God is more interested in an intact family or social circle that looks righteous, rather than you being a person of integrity that has compassion for others. It is this absurdity that teaches the wrong version of God and creates the next generation of 'me' centered individuals.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["changing-the-way-you-think","changing-your-life","changing-your-mind","choices","choose-the-right","commandments","compassion","contentment","dignity","enlightenment","family","forgiveness","freedom","goals","good-goals","grace","heaven","hell","hell-to-well","joy","kindness","living-righteously","love","morals","never-give-up","new-beginnings","peace","positive-thinking","positivity","prodigal-son","redemption","returning","right-path","transformation","understanding","values","white-path"],"id":83767,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Courage can't exist without action. Anything else is a lion without his roar.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["apathy","attiude","being-a-man","caring","choices","choose-the-right","christlike","compassion","fearful","fearless","humanity","integrity","living","standing-for-what-it-right"],"id":147987,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Choose to live life.Choose your own career paths.Choose your own destiny.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["career-advice","career-counseling","career-paths","career","careers","choose-good-attitudes","choose-our-own-destiny","choose-the-right","choose-to-live-life","choose-your-battles-wisely","destiny-and-attitude","destiny-chance","destiny","journey-in-life","journey-personal-history","journey","journey-to-yourself","path","paths-of-life","travel","travel-writing"],"id":198632,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You have to choose your own destiny.You have to choose your own path in life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["choose","choose-our-own-destiny","choose-the-right","choose-to-live-life","choosen","chooses","choosing-your-path-in-life","inspirational","inspirational","life-and-living","life-lesson","life","path","paths-of-life","you","your-destiny","your-journey","your-life"],"id":203759,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A warrior doesn’t worry. He or she evaluates the situation, investigates the source, calculates the risks and benefits, formulates a plan then puts it into action.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["actions","anxiety-free","choose-the-right","faith","fearless","freedom-of-speech","happiness","joy","leadership","motivation","paranoia","plans","positive-outlook","positivity","staying-positive","victory","warriors","worry"],"id":235630,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. People that refocus their attention on service to others or a righteous cause. Have you ever heard someone say their life sucked because they fed the homeless? Made their children laugh? Or, bought a toy for a needy child at Christmas time?","author":"Shannon L. 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With time, these decisions become automatic.","author":"Brittany Burgunder","tags":["anorexia-recovery","believe-in-yourself","best-choice","binge-eating","binge-eating-disorder","binge-eating-recovery","bulimia-help","bulimia-recovery","choose-the-right","decisions","eating-disorder","eating-disorder-recovery","eating-disorders","ednos","healing","never-give-up","possible","recovered","recovery","recovery-inspiration","recovery","trust"],"id":312305,"author_id":"Brittany+Burgunder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}