{"quotes":[{"text":"To make 2013 (or any other)your year, keep it simple:1) Count your blessings first2) Whatever you did last year, Do it better3) Go step by step, One day at a time.4) Create/make your own opportunities.5) Believe in your abilities at all times,6) Qutting is not an option. Keep Going.7) Finish what you started.","author":"Pablo","tags":["attitude","begin","belief","believe","blessings","discipline","finish","focus","goals","improvement","inspiration","inspirational","motivational","new-year","opportunities","perseverance","resolution","resolutions"],"id":3546,"author_id":"Pablo"},{"text":"Resolutions are most often empty promises for those who have an abundance of dreams, but refuse to wake up and live them.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["dreams","goals","promises","resolutions","success"],"id":4955,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["drama","resolutions"],"id":17316,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"Resolution number one: Obviously will lose twenty pounds. Number two: Always put last night's panties in the laundry basket. Equally important, will find sensible boyfriend to go out with and not continue to form romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobic's, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits or perverts. And especially will not fantasize about a particular person who embodies all these things.","author":"Helen Fielding","tags":["resolutions","self-improvement"],"id":20847,"author_id":"Helen+Fielding"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","conflicts-management","conflicts-resolution","creator","food-for-thought","god","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","money","personal-development","practical-prayers","pray","pray-to-god","prayer","problems","resolution","resolutions","rich","riches","solution-to-problems","solve-problems","wealth","wealthy"],"id":25585,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Life is hard. Find some really good people to walk through it with. It makes things a little easier.","author":"Andrena Sawyer","tags":["accountability","community","friendship","life","love","relationships","resolutions"],"id":29345,"author_id":"Andrena+Sawyer"},{"text":"With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["daring-life","dont-quit","dream","education","inspirational","optimism","perseverance","resolutions","self-help","success","you-can"],"id":32617,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":37947,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"If you see a leader solving one conflict wisely, remember he is working hard to prevent 10 of such from happening!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["10","conflict","conflict-management","conflict-resolution","conflicts","food-for-thought","hard-work","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","personal-development","resolution","resolutions","wise","wisely","work","work-hard","working"],"id":48654,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":92,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}