{"quotes":[{"text":"I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["awareness","bloom","book","books","complete","finished","flowers","slaughterhouse-five","writing"],"id":13389,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.","author":"Marcus Aurelius","tags":["half","finished","still "],"id":17990,"author_id":"Marcus+Aurelius"},{"text":"Keep moving in the direction of your dreams. No matter how slows it may seems, stay focus, you will get to the finish line.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","believe","believe-and-achieve","believe-in-others","believe-in-yourself","dreams-and-reality","dreams-and-wishes","dreams","finish","finished","finished-work","finishing-school","focus","focus-curiosity","focus-on-positive","focus-on-your-dreams","focused","learn","learning","learning-lessons","learning-strategies","succeed","success","success-in-business","success-in-life","success","success-self-improvement","success-strategies","successful","successful-living","win","wining"],"id":89751,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A poem is never finished, only abandoned.","author":"Paul Valery","tags":["never","abandoned","finished "],"id":93873,"author_id":"Paul+Valery"},{"text":"Past and future were out of her hands. One was finished and couldn't be undone. The other was beyond imagining.","author":"Francine Rivers","tags":["finished","future","past"],"id":111774,"author_id":"Francine+Rivers"},{"text":"Your future is a finished work. God created your future; your thoughts guide you to locate it and your passion takes you there. However, it’s your attitude that makes you stay!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attitude","brain","complete","completed","finish","finished","food-for-thought","future","god","guidance","guide","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","locate","mind","passion","passionate","thoughts"],"id":131495,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Art is never finished, only abandoned.","author":"Leonardo da Vinci","tags":["never","abandoned","finished "],"id":154761,"author_id":"Leonardo+da+Vinci"},{"text":"Unlike fine furniture, a man is better unfinished.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["finished","furniture","man"],"id":208837,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"If you have any questions for Jesus Christ it is only because you were not paying attention when he said 'It is finished; I died for you on the cross.' John 19:30.","author":"Felix Wantang","tags":["attention","died","finished","jesus","questions"],"id":241870,"author_id":"Felix+Wantang"},{"text":"I decree and I declare that I am not a raw material but rather a finished product. God knows me and knows the reason for which he created me. I am not here on earth to merely live and depart.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["affirmations","consequence","create","created","declaration","declare","declare-a-thing","decree","destiny","die","dreams","earth","finish","finished","finished-product","food-for-thought","god","i","i-declare","i-decree","i-decree-and-declare","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","live","live-and-die","material","me","merely","positive","positive-thinking","product","raw","raw-material","result","say","say-positive-things","speak","success"],"id":282716,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}