{"quotes":[{"text":"When you get to the peak, remember the valley exists.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["ity","ity-and-attitude","life","life-is-like-a-mountain","life-lessons","looking-back","mountain-climbing","pride","staying-careful","staying-focused","staying-positive","valley"],"id":5285,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"I feel strange...I really don't know what I am. In mind I'm almost a woman, in body a young woman. I am almost a woman, but what am I now? I'm no child. I am mature. I know much; I'm somewhere in between. I'm confused--that's what I am. One day I'll long for a baby in my arms or a man's strong arms to hold me...The next, for freedom, respect.","author":"Maya Morrow","tags":["adolescence","development","girl","girl","maya","morrow","silicon","valley"],"id":68784,"author_id":"Maya+Morrow"},{"text":"I was kidnapped by Sunni insurgents near Fallujah, in Iraq, ambushed by the Taliban in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, and injured in a car accident that killed my driver while covering the Taliban occupation of the Swat Valley in Pakistan.","author":"Lynsey Addario","tags":["driver","car accident","valley "],"id":140499,"author_id":"Lynsey+Addario"},{"text":"Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["boast","brag","bragging","climb","climb-up","climbing","fail","failure","food-for-thought","hills","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","mountains","people","person","personal-development","pride","proud","push-him-down","self-improvement","shoe","shoes","slipper","slippers","slippery","success","successful","valley"],"id":147970,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The presence of pain should not be the reason for your low self-image. Boldness is the ability to stand tall even when the valley seems deep. Your pain will bring gain. Just believe and go to work!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["ability","able","belief","believe","bold","boldly","boldness","deep","esteem","food-for-thought","gain","go-to-work","hard-work","image","israelmore-ayivor","low-self-esteem","low-self-image","pain","painful","presence","reason","self-esteem","self-image","self-image-appreciation","stand-tall","valley","work","work-hard"],"id":246879,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I was a typical Valley teen, in smoggy Van Nuys.","author":"Ed Begley","tags":["valley","van","typical "],"id":276526,"author_id":"Ed+Begley"},{"text":"Throw your hands and pull up those in the valley do the hill. However, press your feet on the ground so hard that you don’t fall into the same valley together. Some people’s helping hands became their grave digging tools!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-careful","be-strong","dig-your-grave","don-t-fall","feet","food-for-thought","grave","graves","hands","help","help-people","helping-hands","high","higher-grounds","hill","israelmore-ayivor","low","mountains","solid","strong","stumbling-blocks","valley"],"id":285771,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Ah, what sights and sounds and pain lie beneath that mist. And we had thought that our hard climb out of that cruel valley led to some cool, green and peaceful, sunlit place---but it's all jungle here, a wild and savage wilderness that's overrun with ruins. But put on your crown, my Queen, and we will build a New City on these ruins.","author":"Eldridge Cleaver","tags":["city","crown","new","queen","ruins","soul","valley"],"id":296909,"author_id":"Eldridge+Cleaver"},{"text":"My power is everywhere propping up illusions, but I'm taking it back by letting go of them \u0026 just riding the stallion into wonderland. Let's see what you've got to say about the darkness in the mountains, I wonder if you know you can just turn it all to light. As we ride through the valley can you see the same water flowing that I do, or do dust clouds conceal it and block up your nose \u0026 throat? You're so thirsty for the end of the journey but I don't want you to miss the magic on the road.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["block","darkness","dust","illusions","journey","letting-go","light","magic","mountains","power","riding","road","thirsty","valley","water","wonderland"],"id":299233,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"We can only climb the mountains because there’s a valley that makes the mountain a mountain.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["ascent","challenges","climb","climbing","determination","determined","forceful","journey","life","mountain","mountains","path","road","valley","valleys"],"id":354961,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}