{"quotes":[{"text":"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["artist","belief","brain","cognition","confession","consideration","creativity","creed","death","discard","funny","funny-but-true","habits","honesty","humor","instinct","intellectual","intuition","irrational","knowledge","life","logic","mind","negativity","old-habits","old-person","opinion","original-thought","positivity","precious","psychology","rational","rationalization","sentimental","stubborn","think","thinker","thinking","thought","thoughts","tradition","treasure","valuable","wisdom"],"id":6887,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["anywhere","born-again","dissolution","end","ending","give-up","giving-up","habit","halt","leaving","living","michael-bassey-johnson","new-life","old-habits","rethink","retreat","smoking","somebody","something","stop","taking"],"id":244543,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["life","marriage","old-habits","relationships","stagnant"],"id":291229,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"When I was a child, I liked tasting any candy I happened to see, but as I grew older, I realized those are a great meal to the worms in my innards. Will you shun old habits or nay? That's the question.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["age","boy","candy","child","children","elder","growing","growth","habit","habits","inclinations","innards","meal","michael-bassey-johnson","old","old-habits","older","sweets","worm"],"id":395227,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}