{"quotes":[{"text":"Self-education is self-empowerment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-life","education","empowering","empowering-women","empowerment","faith","hope","inspirational","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","positive","self-education","self-help","self-motivation","self-realization","self-reliance","wise-words"],"id":3950,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny anything above us. This is why the proud preoccupy themselves with looking down on others. A proud man is always looking down on things and people and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you. But to preserve pride it may be simpler to proclaim that there is nothing above to look at (Psalm 10:4). Ultimately, the proud must persuade themselves that there is no God.","author":"John Piper","tags":["pride","self-reliance"],"id":6980,"author_id":"John+Piper"},{"text":"It was why no sane cat allowed kits to come anywhere near human beings. Humans seemed to feel that it was perfectly acceptable to teach kits to accept food from their hands as a matter of course, rather than teaching them the importance of hunting skill and self-reliance.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["cats","humans-and-animals","self-reliance","tamingmusicians"],"id":14780,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"We don't permit anyone to tell us our business, nor do we wish to tell anyone his. The same goes for moral outlooks. Don't tread on us and we won't on you. We're a tolerant, liberty-loving bunch, we Wolfes.","author":"James Carlos Blake","tags":["freedomce","liberty","self-reliance","tolerance"],"id":22474,"author_id":"James+Carlos+Blake"},{"text":"People keep asking what I do for a living and I keep saying that I don’t believe in making a living. That it’s a concept that has been twisted. I tell them I believe in making a life and money is a distracting object if there’s anything left at the end of the day and I just want to go on well. Make it through the day. So I smile and raise my glass and they laugh and take my hand, saying ”here’s to the youth”, pointing at me. And I might just be youngand naivefor I still believe in the freedom of choiceof how to spend your life.So they toast to the youth, who still think she’s free, and that’s all fine by me.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["berlin","drinks","drunk","free","freedom","growing-up","life","location-independent","making-a-living","money","nomadic","self-reliance","songwriter","unemployment","vagabond","wanderer","youth"],"id":27422,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Conquer no man but thyself.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","believe-in-yourself","inspirational-life","lifelong-education","motivation","personal-development","self-confidence","self-reliance"],"id":28033,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The profound paradox is that the great man became more confident in his approach to others, including the man of his own Cabinet, but he recognized that his major confidence was not himself but in Another.","author":"Elton Trueblood","tags":["faith","self-reliance","weakness"],"id":30018,"author_id":"Elton+Trueblood"},{"text":"I have found a higher calling; inspirational-writing!I can’t imagine myself doing any other work, when I ought to write and transmit, awe-inspiring-words, to the souls longing for it.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["abilites","adventure","advice","calling-peole","capable-of-more","career","curisosity","dream","educational-philosophy","enthusiasm","inner-strength","inspirational","inspiring","life","lifelong","love-what-you-do","motivational","passion","positive-outlook","possibilites","potential","saved-souls","self-confidence","self-eduction","self-reliance","spiritual","will-power","wishes","work","write","writers","writing"],"id":30561,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Nobody can bring you a change. You have to want to change.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","change","change-your-life","choices","decision","destiny","determination","education","educational-philosophy","learner","life","life-experience","life-lessons","lifelong-advice","live-and-learn","mind","motivation","positive","purpose","purposeful-living","self-esteem","self-help","self-love","self-reliance","thoughts","wise-sayings","you","your-dream","your-journey","your-life","youth"],"id":31438,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Life is a great adventure.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adventurer","ambition","capable","daring","desires","destiny","determined-spirit","inspirational-life","journey","life","life-experience","life-lesson","life-philosophy","mind-power","path","possible","potential","self-realization","self-reliance","voyage","warrior"],"id":31978,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":183,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}