{"quotes":[{"text":"I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","adversity-and-attitude","adversity","christianity","divine-favour","divine-grace","divine-intervention","faith","gratitude","hope-lailah-gifty-akita","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","learning-from-adversity","learning-from-experiences","learning-from-our-struggles","lost-and-found","lost-generation","lost-in-time","redemption","redemptive-suffering","saved","saved-by-grace","saved-from-sin","saved-souls","sinner","spiritual-insights","spiritual","suffering-life","suffering-of-humanity","suffering","thank-you","thank-you-god","thank-you-notes","thankful","thanksfulness"],"id":38503,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Personal experiences that disrupt stale routines result in the phenomena of cognitive dissiliency, jolting our minds and enhancing our ability to internalizing new information.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["change","change-your-life","knowledge-of-self","learning","learning-from-adversity","learning-from-experiences","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-process","personal-development","personal-development","personal-experience","self-development"],"id":109572,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better past today is what matters.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["bitter-past","learning-from-adversity","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-from-the-past","success"],"id":140163,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"When you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["learning-from-adversity","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-life-lessons","lessons-in-life","lost-opprtunities","mistakes","ponder","reasons-to-be-happy","regrets","regrets-heartache","self-assessment"],"id":140698,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["learning","learning-from-experiences","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-from-the-past","memoir","memories","self-reflection"],"id":177123,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"We are born with the innate capacity to express empathy. Experiencing our own cuts and bruises, encountering our own difficulties and disappointments, expands our cognitive world and rouses the universal desire to understand and comfort other people in pain.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["compassion","diffic","difficulties","difficulties-of-life","disappointment","empathy","failure","failure","learning-from-adversity","learning-from-experiences","learning-from-failures","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-from-the-past","pain","painful-memories","sympathy"],"id":223099,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["learning-from-adversity","learning-from-experiences","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-from-the-past","learning-process","personal-development","personal-growth","self-determination","self-determination","self-discovery"],"id":238628,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by encountering the world, culling knowledge from all available resources, and thinking reverently about life.","author":"Kilroy J. 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Ideas derived from real world experiences lead to acquisition of knowledge, and the accumulation of time-tested principles leads to wisdom.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["experience","know-thyself","knowing-oneself","knowledge","knowledge-of-self","learning","learning-from-adversity","learning-from-experiences","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-our-struggles","learning-from-the-past","learning-process","personal-development","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":382534,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}