{"quotes":[{"text":"Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.","author":"Evita Ochel","tags":["ego","enlightenment","liberation","mind","mindfulness","personal-development","personal-evolution","personal-growth","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-realization"],"id":3506,"author_id":"Evita+Ochel"},{"text":"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.","author":"Albert Camus","tags":["self-actualization","self-centeredness","selfishness"],"id":12481,"author_id":"Albert+Camus"},{"text":"When you apply that gift you possess that comes so easily to you and can be used anywhere, anytime to help someone else; maybe your family, your community, your city, state, country or the world in general... That is your PURPOSE.","author":"Val Uchendu","tags":["brainy","discovering-self-worth","discovering-yourself","discoveringyourself","facebook","gifts","inspirational","instagram","motivational","purpose-driven-life","purpose-of-life","purpose-of-living","purpose","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-awareness","skill","talent","talents-and-gifts","transformation","twitter"],"id":14217,"author_id":"Val+Uchendu"},{"text":"While I still did not know what self- actualization that sat on the top level of the pyramid meant, I could believethat if I knew I would be able to say something positive about it as well inmy life.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["hierarchy-of-needs","humor","humorous","humorous","maslow-s-hierarchy-of-needs","modern-life","needs-pyramid","positive-thinking","sarcastic","self-actualization","self-help"],"id":22688,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"The main purpose of hobby is to promote one’s self-actualization.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["hobby","purpose","self-actualization"],"id":25378,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["memoir","memoir-writing","self-actualization","self-determination","self-development","self-realization","self-realization"],"id":30382,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The mysteries of life include the external and the internal conundrums that each person encounters in a world composed of competing ideologies and agents of change. Conflicting ideas include political, social, legal, and ethical concepts. Agents of change include environmental factors, social pressure to conform, aging, and the forces inside us that made us into whom we are as well as the forces compelling us to be a different type of person.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aging","change-your-life","changing-the-way-you-think","changing-your-mindset","changing-yourself","conundrum","enlightenment","enlightenment","idealism","ideas","ideologies","ideology","mysteries-of-life","paradox","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-realization","self-realization","transformation"],"id":35667,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direct or implicit anticipations of other people, we end up living a life full of regret because we failed to develop into a complete manifestation of our being.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","expectations","expectations","personal-development","personal-growth","regret","self-acceptance","self-actualization","self-awareness","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-realization","self-realization"],"id":36040,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.","author":"Joseph Campbell","tags":["follow-your-bliss","inspirational","self-actualization"],"id":41130,"author_id":"Joseph+Campbell"},{"text":"Work while you have strength.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["awareness","self-actualization","strength","volunteering","work"],"id":45916,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":88,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}