{"quotes":[{"text":"Acquiring knowledge doesn't bring power into your life, until you apply what you have learned.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-happy","choices","confidence","difficult-times","experiences","goals","growth","inspired-life","intelligence","lessons","lessons-learned-in-life","life","living","love","make-dreams-come-true","motivation","move","potential","potential-for-greatness","power","self-esteem-101","self-improvement","stayingpositiveu-com","take-action","take-control","wisdom"],"id":3568,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.","author":"Shannon L. 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Never wear their chains of judgment when they can’t break free of their own.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["confidence","freedom","freedom-of-judgement","freedom-of-opinion","lessons-learned-in-life","self-assurance","self-esteem-101","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":68125,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.","author":"Shannon L. 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Getting cut can be deemed a failure, the loss of a lifetime goal.Thankfully, as Christians our worth is not determined by mistakes we’ve made, either accidentally or by stupid stuff we’ve purposely done. Neither is it determined by what anyone else thinks. Our worth is determined by what Jesus Christ has already done.","author":"Jake Byrne","tags":["faith","football","goals","god","jesus-christ","mistakes","never-give-up","self-esteem","self-esteem-101","self-esteem-high","self-worth","worth","worthiness"],"id":314239,"author_id":"Jake+Byrne"},{"text":"When you are no longer afraid is when you can be yourself.","author":"Shannon L. 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Competition would be left on the playing field, and your freedom from what other people think about you would light the pathway out of hell.","author":"Shannon L. 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