{"quotes":[{"text":"Whenever you begin to conclude, 'I can't win,' and 'What's the use?' you've set yourself up for failure. Your pessimism becomes a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["becomes","conclude","failure","pessimism","self-fulfilling-prophecy","set","you-ve","yourself"],"id":13380,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy.It's you.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["battle","being-your-own-enemy","enemy","insurmountable","pessimism","psychology","self-fulfilling-prophecy"],"id":35728,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"We live what we create. We create what we live.","author":"Mommy Moo Moo","tags":["empowering","philosophy-of-life","self-fulfilling-prophecy","self-improvement"],"id":73606,"author_id":"Mommy+Moo+Moo"},{"text":"Most of us don't fear that we are not enough; what most of us really fear is our own greatness. Most of us have a fear of success. Why? Because we don't think that we deserve to be successful in anything. This is why people recklessly spend their money or don't work as hard as they could or do things that they know are wrong. They are hindering their own success on purpose, because they don't think they deserve it. They cut their own legs out from underneath them on purpose. They are self-sabotaging.","author":"Lisa Bedrick","tags":["belief","faith","fear","god","holy-spirit","hope","jesus","joy","money","purpose","self-fulfilling-prophecy","self-sabotage","spending","success"],"id":122010,"author_id":"Lisa+Bedrick"},{"text":"When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my hand is wet.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["chronicle","create","created","dark","destructive","forboding","ghastly","hand","life","life-story","pen","sabotage","self-destructive","self-fulfilling","self-fulfilling-prophecy","self-sabotage","story","tragedy","tragic","write","writing"],"id":162350,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act. ","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["fear","inaction","pessimism","self-fulfilling-prophecy"],"id":235438,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"Our goal in life is to carry with us the wisdom of experience, yet treat each new day as its own unique reality, rather than comparing what currently is to what has been in the past. When we compare, we plant expectations that then become self-fulfilling prophesies through the Law of Attraction.","author":"Alaric Hutchinson","tags":["compassion","consciousness","experience","growth","inner-peace","inspirational","law-of-attraction","letting-go","life-lessons","moving-on","open-heart","psychology","release","releasing-the-past","self-fulfilling-prophecy","spiritual","thoughts","wisdom","zen"],"id":281363,"author_id":"Alaric+Hutchinson"},{"text":"As your lover describes you, so you are.","author":"Jeanette Winterson","tags":["love","self-fulfilling-prophecy"],"id":321754,"author_id":"Jeanette+Winterson"},{"text":"Dare to believe in the reality of your assumptionand watch the world play its partrelative to to its fulfillment.","author":"Neville Goddard","tags":["dream-big","self-fulfilling-prophecy"],"id":355788,"author_id":"Neville+Goddard"},{"text":"Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["self-fulfilling-prophecy","thought","unhappiness"],"id":386332,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}