{"quotes":[{"text":"In my experience, those who make the biggest fuss about not spending much at Christmas are generally the ones who buy what they want and eat where they want 12 months a year.","author":"Julian Baggini","tags":["experience","want","year "],"id":636,"author_id":"Julian+Baggini"},{"text":"Find joy in the faces of children who view life as so magical. Give thanks every day for your life and for your existence. Your life matters, you matter. So many people think and care about you and you’re never really alone! Remember your loved ones are the real gift. I care about you; you have a friend in me. Look forward to knowing that next year is going to be even better than the last….","author":"James A. Murphy","tags":["alone","better","care","children","existence","faces","find","forward","friend","gift","joy","knowing","life","look","loved","magical","people","remember","thanks","think","year"],"id":1440,"author_id":"James+A.+Murphy"},{"text":"That wouldn't be a bad way to die...Giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.","author":"Jeff Zentner","tags":["bad","die","gone","good","inspirational","star","stars","year"],"id":1446,"author_id":"Jeff+Zentner"},{"text":"I have the body of an eighteen year old. I keep it in the fridge.","author":"Spike Milligan","tags":["body","year","eighteen "],"id":7255,"author_id":"Spike+Milligan"},{"text":"How would your life be different if...You could control the outcome of your day, your week, your year? Let today be the day...You embrace the truth that you DO have such control to label every event in your life, and create an agreement with reality that empowers you and propels you to greatness.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["agreement-with-reality","control","empowerment","greatness","inspirational","label","life","motivational","truth","week","year"],"id":12443,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"It was a lesson she was still learning. When she had first started nursing, she had taken every death personally, like she was losing her father all over again. Every patient lost under her care was a little piece of death she would carry around with her until the end of her own life. But the alternative seemed so unfeeling. Tina and the other nurses could crack jokes and banter back and forth about contestants on American Idol before the body of a deceased patient was even cold. It was a coping mechanism, she knew, but not necessarily one she thought she would ever adopt. There had to be something in between. Olive had been called a bleeding heart before, but her heart no longer had the same plasticity and tenderness—it was scarred and worn beyond repair.","author":"Andrea Lochen","tags":["coping","death","lesson","loss","nurse","nursing","patients","repeat","year"],"id":14172,"author_id":"Andrea+Lochen"},{"text":"December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.","author":"Fennel Hudson","tags":["december","season","winter","year"],"id":14706,"author_id":"Fennel+Hudson"},{"text":"Billions of dreams die off every year. I believe yours will not be part of that proportion if only you are ready to shape them!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["belief","believe","big-dreams","billions","die","dream-big","dream-killer","dreams","every-year","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","millions","proportion","shape-the-dream","year"],"id":21868,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"One key quality of all global achievers is that, they keep improving day after day. They set standards that they keep surpassing year after year.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","achievements","achievers","become-better","day","do-more","food-for-thought","global","global-achievers","improve","increase","israelmore-ayivor","key","quality","standard","standards","surpass","year"],"id":32794,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!","author":"Nancy Kerrigan","tags":["hockey","year","younger "],"id":33660,"author_id":"Nancy+Kerrigan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}