{"quotes":[{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The problem with having problems is that ‘someone’ always has it worse.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["men","mental","mental-awareness","mental-disorders","mental-health","mental-illness","mental-strength","ptsd"],"id":115374,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bias","biases","brainy","cognition","conscience","evolutionary-psychology","human-mind","human-nature","mental-life","mental-strength","mind","neuropsychology","neuroscience","primitive-human-behavior","rational","reasoning","science-of-mind","survival","truth","wisdom"],"id":130992,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"Attitude is 100% under your control – (yours to choose, use or lose, as they say)Happiness, fulfillment and satisfaction in a life ALWAYS and ONLY come as a consequence of some other activity. That is you don’t just create ‘happy’ or ‘satisfied’ – you have to be doing something with your life that as a byproduct creates these states.That’s it.Told you it was simple.Alright, I admit, writing about how to create a ‘successful life’ is easy – because to create something out of your life is 99.9% Mental Focus and 50% ( as Yogi Berra would say and .01% for those of you who are paying attention) -knowing how to get the result and doing it.Writing about it is easy; it’s the doing that’s hard.","author":"Martin Gover","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","mental-strength"],"id":279228,"author_id":"Martin+Gover"},{"text":"One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["bias","biases","brainy","cognition","conscience","evolutionary-psychology","human-behavior","human-mind","human-nature","mental-life","mental-strength","mind","neuropsychology","neuroscience","primitive-human-behavior","rational","reasoning","science-of-mind","self-restraint","survival","truth","wisdom"],"id":345809,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"The ability to continue moving when you are feeling scared, fearful or lazy is the sign of true mental strength.","author":"Matthew Donnelly","tags":["inspirational","mental-strength","mental-toughness","motivational","personal-development","personal-growth","self-development","self-help"],"id":396930,"author_id":"Matthew+Donnelly"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}