{"quotes":[{"text":"If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets paved with dust, horsedung and consumptives' spits.","author":"James Joyce","tags":["diet","food","improvement","inspirational","truth"],"id":838,"author_id":"James+Joyce"},{"text":"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","answer","ask","begin","better","betterment","compassion","compassionate","condition","conversations","converse","empathy","friend","friendship","good","hear","improvement","judge","judgement","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","know","knowledge","kojouri","listen","listener","love","love","lover","mindful","mindfulness","ourselves","quote","quotes","reply","reserve","respond","self","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","sincerely"],"id":1026,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Never put off writing until you are better at it.","author":"Gary Henderson","tags":["encouragement","improvement","on-writing","writing"],"id":1070,"author_id":"Gary+Henderson"},{"text":"Create your world with God's Word in your mouth just say it and it will be accomplished!","author":"Jaachynma N.E. Agu","tags":["accomplishments","amazom","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiyson","entrepreneurship","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","improvement","inspiration","jaachynma","leadership","niche","president","reading","relationship","revolution","risk-it","self-help","success","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper"],"id":1281,"author_id":"Jaachynma+N.E.+Agu"},{"text":"To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started.","author":"Pablo","tags":["attitude","begin","belief","believe","blessings","discipline","finish","focus","goals","improvement","inspiration","inspirational","motivational","new-year","opportunities","perseverance","resolution","resolutions"],"id":3546,"author_id":"Pablo"},{"text":"You cannot stay at the same level as when you first practiced your truth, life won't let you.","author":"Kamal Ravikant","tags":["improvement","self-improvement","self-realization","stagnation","truth"],"id":4041,"author_id":"Kamal+Ravikant"},{"text":"Don't die without fulfilling your purpose.","author":"Jaachynma N.E. Agu","tags":["accomplishments","amazom","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiyson","entrepreneurship","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","improvement","inspiration","jaachynma","leadership","niche","president","reading","relationship","revolution","risk-it","self-help","success","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper"],"id":5636,"author_id":"Jaachynma+N.E.+Agu"},{"text":"You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman.","author":"Lionel Messi","tags":["improvement","believe "],"id":6484,"author_id":"Lionel+Messi"},{"text":"A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambition","artist","chance","change","chronological-snobbery","commitment","conservative","consistency","dedication","development","distaste","fear","improvement","liberal","mastery","new","new-age","old","original","perception","perfection","perseverance","persistence","perspective","progression","taste","tradition","understanding","unknown","young"],"id":6685,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Your status has changed. Your Name is changed! You are a new creation.","author":"Jaachynma N.E. Agu","tags":["accomplishments","amazom","aspiration","be-different","book","business","chiyson","entrepreneurship","greater-glory","greatness","higher-living","improvement","inspiration","jaachynma","leadership","niche","president","reading","relationship","revolution","risk-it","self-help","success","the-best-option","the-prince-and-the-pauper"],"id":7324,"author_id":"Jaachynma+N.E.+Agu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":544,"pages":55,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}