{"quotes":[{"text":"I will sacrifice today for tomorrow.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achieve","advice","ambition","hard-work","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","motivation","positive","positive-outlook","self-confidenc","self-determination","success","wise-words","work-ethic"],"id":411,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Let him who would move the world first move himself.","author":"Socrates","tags":["change","self-determination","self-development"],"id":1282,"author_id":"Socrates"},{"text":"Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want?","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["self-awareness","self-determination"],"id":1404,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"My hope fuels my determination to overcome any difficulty.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adventure","adventure-travel","adversity","advice","believe-and-achieve","believe-in-yourself","christian","confidence","courage","daily-living","daily","despair-hope","determined-spirit","difficulties-of-life","educational-philosophy","educational","faith","fearless-bravery","fearless","hope-for-each-day","hope-for-the-hopeless","hope-lailah-gifty-akita","hope","inner-strength","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","overcomer","positive","positive-thinking","self-confidence","self-determination","strength-and-courage","strength-of-will","troubles","uplifting","willpower"],"id":1671,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"In reaction against the age-old slogan, 'woman is the weaker vessel,' or the still more offensive, 'woman is a divine creature,' we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that 'a woman is as good as a man,' without always pausing to think what exactly we mean by that. What, I feel, we ought to mean is something so obvious that it is apt to escape attention altogether, viz: (...) that a woman is just as much an ordinary human being as a man, with the same individual preferences, and with just as much right to the tastes and preferences of an individual. What is repugnant to every human being is to be reckoned always as a member of a class and not as an individual person.","author":"Dorothy L. Sayers","tags":["classification","clichés","dignity","discrimination","double-standards","empowerment","feminism","gender","individuality","misogyny","self-determination","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":2459,"author_id":"Dorothy+L.+Sayers"},{"text":"Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.","author":"Confucius","tags":["personal-responsibility","self-assessment","self-determination"],"id":2900,"author_id":"Confucius"},{"text":"Failure is a sign post, directing the right road for life’s journey.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","believe-and-achieve","believe-in-yourself","christian","college-life","daily","educational","encouragement","faith","inner-strength","inspirational","journey","journey-to-yourself","learning-from-mistakes","learning-process","learning","lessons-learnt","life-lessons","life","motivational","negative-and-positive","negative-thoughts","overcoming-adversity","path-of-life","positive-thinking","self-determination","self-motivation","success","time-travel","travel-writing","wisdom","wise-words","your-life"],"id":3027,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":4046,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":4046,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Run the race of life with all perseverance and endurance.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achieve","courage","drea","educational-philosophy","endurance","inner-strength","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","mentality","never-give-up","obstacles","overcoming-adversity","perseverance","persistence","positive-thinking","race","self-determination","self-motivation","success","winners-and-losers"],"id":4904,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":644,"pages":65,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}