{"quotes":[{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.","author":"Anna White","tags":["anxiety","beauty","courage","depression","faith","fear","memoir","not-alone","relationship-advice","rock-bottom","strength"],"id":68096,"author_id":"Anna+White"},{"text":"It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.","author":"R.K. Lilley","tags":["advice","compromise","love","rock-bottom","tristan-vega"],"id":127836,"author_id":"R.K.+Lilley"},{"text":"When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accountability","bottom","difficulties","difficulty","dig","hole","honest","honesty","question","responsibility","responsible","rock-bottom","self-analysis","self-discovery","shovel"],"id":169083,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you realize you could die right now - and want to, but realize that even death won't make the difference you were hoping for.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["acting-out","brokenness","death","determination","die","difference","helped-myself","helping-others","hoping","rock-bottom","strength","whole-again"],"id":177484,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"And I know, knew for sure, with an absolute certainty, that this is rock bottom, this what the worst possible thing feels like. It is not some grand, wretched emotional breakdown. It is, in fact, so very mundane:…Rock Bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable…Rock bottom is feeling that the only thing that matters in all of life is the one bad moment…Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It’s a failure of vision, a failure to see the world how it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not—and not some other way.","author":"Elizabeth Wurtzel","tags":["breakdown","depair","depression","mental-illness","rock-bottom"],"id":181224,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wurtzel"},{"text":"The beauty of adversity is that when we hit bottom, the only way to go is up.","author":"Dana Arcuri","tags":["adversity","empowerment","inspirational","motivational","perseverance","rock-bottom"],"id":197107,"author_id":"Dana+Arcuri"},{"text":"She was getting worse, but I knew that I had to stand by her. I knew the type of woman she really was and I needed to find a way to help her find herself. She didn’t give up on me when I hit bottom, so I wouldn’t give up on her.","author":"Matt Abrams","tags":["love","mental-illness","rock-bottom"],"id":205950,"author_id":"Matt+Abrams"},{"text":"Once you hit rock bottom, that's where you perfectly stand; That's your chance of restarting, but restarting the right way.","author":"Justin Kanayurak","tags":["better-life-empathy","biblical","change","change-the-world","changing-your-life","changing-your-path","depressed","depression","inspirational","life","live-a-new-life","living-in-christ","living-right","love","new-career","new-life","perfect-life","restarting","restarting-career","restarting-life","right-path","rock-bottom","sad","time-for-change"],"id":213458,"author_id":"Justin+Kanayurak"},{"text":"You can perhaps, in a number of circumstances, tell yourself that you can't have more than you have until you do better than you're doing, but by all means steer clear of its reverse, the creed of defeat, in saying that you can't do better than you're doing until you can have more than you have.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["action","adversity","better","boost","boost-your-self-esteem","business","circumstances","confidence","contentment","creed","defeat","development","discipline","discouragement","do","empowerment","encouragement","failure","hard-work","have","here-and-now","inspirational","loser","money","motivational","negativity","now","now-is-the-time","opportunity","perseverance","poor","positivity","poverty","reverse","rock-bottom","self-esteem","skill","sports","started-from-the-bottom","success","suffering","victory","winner","work"],"id":232127,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}