{"quotes":[{"text":"And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["2016","becoming","beginning","end-of-the-year","experience","growing","life","love","new-year","new-years","self","starting-over","understand","understanding","worth","you"],"id":2157,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Everything good or bad in my life had started and ended within the limits of that town. It was over now, though, and a new chapter was beginning. Nothing would ever be the same as it had been before. I just hoped this chapter wouldn't be the final one in the book.","author":"Rose Wynters","tags":["hope","inspiration","new","picking-up-the-pieces","starting-over","zombies"],"id":4593,"author_id":"Rose+Wynters"},{"text":"With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.","author":"Tilly Dunn","tags":["depression","self-help","starting-over"],"id":11418,"author_id":"Tilly+Dunn"},{"text":"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["death","dignity","faith","haiku","healing","heaven","human-mortality","love","metaphysics","national-poetry-month","philosophy","rebirth","recovery","resurrection","spirituality","starting-over","wisdom"],"id":16123,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"You move forward because you have to. Life doesn't stand still. It makes you move on until you want to move on, you know? It'll run you over if you don't move.","author":"Darian Wilk","tags":["breakup","divorce","moving-on-and-letting-go","starting-over"],"id":18480,"author_id":"Darian+Wilk"},{"text":"There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.","author":"Piper Payne","tags":["art","beauty","heartbreak","humanity","life","love","new-adult","painting","painting-a-canvas","starting-over"],"id":20794,"author_id":"Piper+Payne"},{"text":"All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beginnings","darkness","dreams","future","goals","journey","lessons","midnight","new-beginnings","new-day","new-journeys","red-path","rough-starts","starting-over","tough-times"],"id":35690,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.","author":"Phillip Gary Smith","tags":["failure","outcome","starting-over","try"],"id":51529,"author_id":"Phillip+Gary+Smith"},{"text":"Sometimes life requires more of you than you have to give \u0026 demands you plunge into the reinvention of yourself if you truly wanna live.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["dig-deep","life","life-lessons","live-fully","persistence","poetry","reinventing-yourself","starting-over","wisdom"],"id":52064,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["building","closed-doors","destiny","faith","faith-in-god","holding-out-for-the-best","new-direction","obstacles","open-doors","opportunity","overcoming-obstacles","positive-thinking","purpose","realizing-your-purpose","starting-over","trying-again","when-god-closes-a-door"],"id":69105,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}