{"quotes":[{"text":"And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["2016","becoming","beginning","end-of-the-year","experience","growing","life","love","new-year","new-years","self","starting-over","understand","understanding","worth","you"],"id":2157,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Your identity is not in who you can be. It is in who you always have been.","author":"Ricky Maye","tags":["addiction","confidence","depression","fail","failure","failures","future","growing","identity","identity-crisis","image","mirror","past","purpose","self-harm","self-helm","self-image","self-improvement","to-write-love-on-her-arms","twloha"],"id":4412,"author_id":"Ricky+Maye"},{"text":"If I ever stop challenging myself, then I am getting lazy and comfortable and I am no longer growing. I hope to use life's challenges as stepping stones to ever greater things.","author":"Roz Savage","tags":["challenges","growing"],"id":5690,"author_id":"Roz+Savage"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Your life was meant for more than being a life-long doormat for deadbeats, losers, gossipers, nay-sayers, dream-crushers, energy vampires, users, abusers, ragers and passive-aggressive backstabbers.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["growing","teaching","wisdom"],"id":7325,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't something that I got to use very much growing up. We eventually just spoke English around the house.","author":"James Wan","tags":["growing up","growing","house "],"id":7936,"author_id":"James+Wan"},{"text":"No matter what happens I choose to value the memories of the good times, grow from the lessons of the bad times because I don't regret a single moment of it, every detail made me who I am.","author":"Tilicia Haridat","tags":["growing","inspirational","memories","moving-on","positive-thought"],"id":8251,"author_id":"Tilicia+Haridat"},{"text":"Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["endurance","growing","growth","hardships","learning","life","life-lessons","richelle","richelle-goodrich"],"id":9523,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"They run, they touch, they learn, they play, They listen, they work hard at growing all day.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["day","growing","learn","listen","play","run","touch","work-hard"],"id":14918,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise and compassionate will rise above it, with enough vision to see that inconsistency is a normal occurrence, during the spiritual battle of forgiveness and justice.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["actions","compassion","consciousness","consistency","doing","forgiveness","growing","hearing","hypocrisy","judging","justice","knowing","leadership","learning","philosophy","religion","seeing","speculation","spirituality","vision","visionary"],"id":16250,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":267,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}