{"quotes":[{"text":"You are not a victim. You are a willing participant that has created your own anxiety through your negative mind, insecurities and actions. If you want to secure your future then the only way is through love, forgiveness and the willingness to admit you have participated in the uncomfortableness you are experiencing now. Stop telling yourself you are justified in hate, indifference, silence or bias. You are not. You can't build a positive life through battling others. The world is full of victims. No one wants to hear that story. People want to know how you did what the majority wouldn't do-you forgave and built up your enemies. It is seems totally rare and unheard of these days to swallow your pain and take the high road, but guess what? Those are the leaders that people admire and want to know. Those are the 1% who change the world and people's lives. So why do you want to be like the world when you can be beyond it?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accountable","anxiety","anxiety-free","be-happy","big-hearts","change","do-better","fear","high-ground","infj","leaders","love-one-another","perspective","positivity","rise-higher","self-esteem","stay-positive","worry-free"],"id":22466,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Love is happiness of the spirit.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["beautiful-life","christian","faith","happiness","hope","inspirational","joyful","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","love","love-one-another","married-life","positive-thought","roamcne","spirit","spiritual-wisdom","thankful-heart"],"id":23864,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The most beautiful women in the world are the ones that can stand as rivals on the battlefield of love, yet they can still see each other’s pain. They can set down their swords for only just a moment to acknowledge the beauty of the warrior that stands before them—the passion, the fearlessness and the relentless fire that never gives up. It is in this moment that we learn that it is not the man that sees the worth of the hearts torn by battle in his honor; it is the women who have suffered for so long. Two women that can “see” clearly the worth of the other, even while they grow weary from their wounds is the only kind of beauty that matters. For if there wasn’t two worthy opponents there would be no war in love.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bickering","fighting","heart-break","hurt","love","love-one-another","love-your-enemies","perspective","respect","revivals","scars","sillyness","sportmanship","the-big-picture","tired","war","women","wounds","years","you-are-beautiful","your-are-smart"],"id":52658,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone-but-not-lonely","alone-in-a-crowd","beauty","committed","grief","independent","life","loneliness","love","love-hurts","love-one-another","love","love-yourself","lover","loving-someone","loving-yourself","melancholy","relationships","sad","sadness","self-awareness","self-esteem","self-help","self-improvement","self-realization","single","solitude"],"id":76227,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"The more you talk about it, rehash it, rethink it, cross analyze it, debate it, respond to it, get paranoid about it, compete with it, complain about it, immortalize it, cry over it, kick it, defame it, stalk it, gossip about it, pray over it, put it down or dissect its motives it continues to rot in your brain. It is dead. It is over. It is gone. It is done. It is time to bury it because it is smelling up your life and no one wants to be near your rotted corpse of memories and decaying attitude. Be the funeral director of your life and bury that thing!","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["alienating","bad-memories","blaming-others","broken-records","brutal-truth","bury","burying","dating","degrading-yourself","distancing","drowning-others","family","family-conflict","fights","find-joy","finding-focus","focus-on-positive","forget-it","forgive","friends","funeral-director","funny","give-it-up","happiness","hating-others","humor","hurting-others","issues","joyful-living","let-go","let-it-go","letting-go","life-coach","life-coaching","love-one-another","move-on","moving-on","obnoxious","over-thinking","paranoia","peace","relationships","rotted-corpse","siblings","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":116213,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["actions","answers","choices","decisions","diversity","faith","family","friends","love-one-another","mysteries","people","pessimist","realist","unexplained","universe"],"id":121922,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["believing","faith","freedom","god-s-plan","hope","love-one-another","patience","prayer","stuck","trusting-god","waiting"],"id":128356,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Fearlessness is not what you do to win, but what you don't do. When you love yourself as much as your God, you won't see other people as the source of your pain. Rather, you will see who you have become because you honestly believed that your chains would be broken through hatred, instead of kindness.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accountability","confidence","cruelty","empowering-women","faith","fearless","kindness","learn","love-one-another","mistakes","outside-influence","relationship-with-god","relationships-101","self-growth"],"id":142130,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"This is what the LORD requires of every man; to do justice, to love mercy and to humbly work with God.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","belief","believe","bible","christian","coexist","coexistence","compassion","educational-philosophy","fairness","faith","forgiveness","god","god-s-grace","good-deeds","good-vs-evil","goodness","holy-writings","hope","humanity","humility","inspirational","intention","jesus-christ","justice","lessons-learnt","life-philosophy","love","love-one-another","mankind","mercy","peace","peace-on-earth","peaceful-co-existence","positive","positive-thoughts","praying","religion-and-philosophy","scriptures","spiritual-warfare","war","wise-words","work","working-together"],"id":142139,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"We are shining stars to guide each other.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["belief","christian-life","coexistence","encouragement","faith","guidance","humanity","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","light","love-one-another","mankind","peaceful","positive","positive-outlook","positive-thinking","religion","self-motivation","shine-your-light","stars"],"id":157420,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}