{"quotes":[{"text":"To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["apprehension","aspirations","calling","destination","destiny","dreams","fear","goals","hemmed","horizons","impossibilities","impossible","imprisoned","journey","life","living","passion","possibilities","possible","prison","self-defeat"],"id":209192,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Watching someone you love go through difficult times is like being trapped in your own body but paralyzed. You want to yell at them, scream, help them, but your body won’t move, and you know that no matter how hard you try, in the end, the path is theirs to choose. You can’t choose for them. What a terrifying concept, especially considering we hardly see every option when we’re stuck in our own self-defeat.","author":"Rachel Van Dyken","tags":["dies","love","path","people","people-die","self-defeat"],"id":357997,"author_id":"Rachel+Van+Dyken"},{"text":"A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anger","attitude","authentic-self","balance","balanced-life","buddhism","chemical-imbalance","emotional-balance","happiness","internal-conflict","issues","mental-disorders","self-awareness","self-choices","self-defeat","self-defeating","self-esteem","self-respect","self-worth","sorrow","spiritual-balance","true-to-yourself"],"id":360724,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.","author":"Jordan Belfort","tags":["excuses","goal","inspiration","motivation","self-defeat"],"id":395694,"author_id":"Jordan+Belfort"},{"text":"Understand that when the beast within yousucceeds again in paralyzing into unendingincompletion whatever you again had the temerity totry to makeits triumph is made sweeter by confirmation of itsrectitude. It knows that it aloneknows you.","author":"Frank Bidart","tags":["self-defeat","self-knowledge"],"id":400618,"author_id":"Frank+Bidart"},{"text":"It is what it is because you let it be so.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["action","actions-over-words","conditioning","defeat","defeatism","doing","follower","free-mind","initiative-initiative-taker","inspire","it-is-what-it-is","lazy","lazy-minds","life","meaning","meaningful-life","meaningless","mind","motivate","motivational","passive","passive-resistance","politicals","programming","puppet","self-defeat","sheep","so-it-is","suzy-kassem","take-action","thinking","truth","warrior"],"id":471020,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I craft most of my own tragedies without ever having even the remotest understanding that it is I myself who have done the crafting.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["craft","create","defeat","sabotage","self-defeat","self-destruction","self-sabotage","tragedy"],"id":480936,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}