{"quotes":[{"text":"Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accountability","anxiety","barriers","belief-systems","beliefs","beliefs-in-yourself","blinded","blindsighted","boundaries","brainwashed","bravery","breaking-free","controlled","direction","diversity","expectations","false-beliefs","fear","fearful","fearless","fears","freedom","growing","growth","hurts","idealist","introspection","knowing-what-you-want","learning","listening","ocd","open-minded","open-minded-life","openness","ownership","pain","past","personal-growth","perspective","perspectives-on-life","prisoners","road-blocks","rules","self-discovery","self-esteem-101","self-evaluation","self-imposed-pain","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","stereotypes","taking-control","unrealistic-expectations","victomization","walls","wisdom"],"id":32707,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["inspirational","knowing","knowing-what-you-want","life","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","wise","wise-man","wise-man","wise"],"id":182466,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"},{"text":"Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["distractions","focus","knowing-what-you-want","persistence"],"id":242137,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"Your most important “want” should be the one you can control!","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["achieving-vs-desiring","action","attainable-goals","attitude","being-in-the-game","bravery","career","change","choices","control","courage","decisions","defining-your-life","focus","focus-on-your-dreams","forming-life-goals","happiness","joy","knowing-what-you-want","knowing-why-you-want-it","life-purpose","living-life","organization","organizing-your-life","participating","passion","perspective","pursuit","realistic-goals","self-assessment","self-reflection","setting-goals","striving","wanting-something","working"],"id":246245,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though you shall know your ‘had I know’ in the end.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["courage","courage-to-be-oneself","courage-to-say-no","had-i-know","knowing-what-you-want","learning-to-say-no","life-lessons","pity","regrets","remorse","staying-assertive","yes-and-no"],"id":270123,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["authentic-living","authentic-self","authenticity","being-real","change","changing","childhood-dreams","dreams","goals","ideas","introspection","knowing-what-you-want","living","way-of-life"],"id":289355,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["arrogance","bad-goals","baggage","commonsense","communication","compassion","confidence","courage","empty-goals","false-happiness","fame","finding-yourself","focusing-on-healing","fortune","hurts","immediate-gratification","indecision","kindness","knowing-what-you-want","knowledge","money","pains","scars","self-help","self-inflicted-pain","spiritual-healing","unhappy-celebrities","unhappy-life","unhappy-rich-people","virtues","wisdom","wounds"],"id":423321,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["courage","courage-to-be-oneself","courage-to-say-no","had-i-know","knowing-what-you-want","learning-to-say-no","life-lessons","pity","regrets","remorse","staying-assertive","yes-and-no"],"id":476015,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}