{"author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"People always knock what's new but I love the modern Internet, where cleverness is currency. Social media is a cleverness meritocracy. We're living in it.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["clever","cleverness","currency","future","internet","internet-marketing","marketing","marketing","merit","meritocracy","modern","modern-life","modern-society","social-media"],"id":11212,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"If your spirit is persistently harmless or if it has shown itself to you, in a non-threatening way, then you most definitely have a ghost. The ghost can be frightening, by its very nature. But the ghost will never intentionally frighten you. They will be there for three reasons: 1. They used to live there and are attached to the location 2. They are trying to communicate something to the living or 3. They are protective of somebody who lives in the house and so they are “standing guard” so to speak, over the loved one.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["boggart","brownies","demon","domovoi","ghost","ghosts","gnome","guide","guides","haunted","haunting","home","house-spirit","occult","possession","spirits","spiritual","spiritualism"],"id":14502,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the faeries may literally attack you, on the spot.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["dwarf","elf","faeries","fairy","fairy-tale","folklore","gnome","magic","myth","mythology","spirits"],"id":41892,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"The father and daughter made their way north, through unknown sylvan paradises where only the owls and skunks know their way around. The hard work of paddling non-stop for many hours had long since stopped being difficult for Saweyimew. In spite of her beauty and grace, her back had grown strong and sinewy from years of canoe trips. She reveled in the exhilaration it always brought her, after the first few hours left her body insensible to pain or discomfort. Warm and tingly, lulled into peaceful contemplation by hours of the rhythmic paddling, the smell of the water, exotic blooms, animal musk. It all combined as one to make her feel so alive. Especially when it rained, and her body steamed against the cool drops, feeling invincible against the elements. The mountain of her father's back was like a rock against anything nature could throw against them. The stream of fragrant pipe-smoke still flowing from his lips, regardless of any obstacle. She felt at that moment, nothing would ever stop her father's pipe from smoking. Nothing, not death, not any force of the living or spirit world, would ever still her father's heart. Rain cleansing her to the core, she was a spring of raw power and self-reliance, paddling against all adversity--their master completely. Her father's daughter. At times like that, when it rained, she entirely understood and shared her father's outlook on life.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["adversity","canoe","canoing","daughter","fantasy","father","father-daughter","fathers-and-daughters","faughter-and-daughter","lore","nature","paddling","self-reliance","short-stories","short-story","strength","strength-through-adversity"],"id":45962,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Never invite any kind of spirit to enter either your home or your person. This is an extremely important point to remember. To do so always risks to unwittingly invite evil spirits in, instead. Good spirits never need to be invited in.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["demons","folklore","ghosts","house","magic","mythology","spirits","spiritual","spirituality"],"id":47090,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"In our modern world, we look unkindly on mistakes and imperfection. But this is far from the samurai ideal. Mistakes are part of the learning process and if you haven't made them then you are, indeed, dangerous because it means you have never learned anything. Mistakes, to a samurai, are the proof of your learning.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["failure","japan","learning","mistakes","samurai","spirituality","warrior","warriors"],"id":66858,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Nowadays, the Internet decides if you're good, not the big man in the big office. No matter how important that man thinks he is, everyone else knows that he's not important anymore, and the Internet decides these things, here in the modern age.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["indie","indie-","internet","modern-life","modern-society","publishing","self-publishing","social-media","social-media-marketing","the-future","writer","writers","writing"],"id":101740,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Incredibly intelligent people always seem odd to those who are not as sharp.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["genius","genius-writers","geniuses","intelligence","intelligence-quotient","stupidity","stupidity","wisdom"],"id":114730,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Everything can be summed up into an equation.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["asperger","autism","detective","equation","mathematics","science"],"id":137707,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"},{"text":"Being a samurai is all about selfless service and if the lord abuses the servant, it is no longer a situation of service; it becomes the situation of a victim. It is never acceptable for a samurai to be a victim. It is never acceptable to allow a lord to abuse you or rob you of your dignity. In such a situation, it is acceptable to walk away.","author":"Alexei Maxim Russell","tags":["bushido","japan","japanese-culture","martial-arts","philosophy","samurai","selfless","selfless-love","selflessness","service","warrior","warriors"],"id":139804,"author_id":"Alexei+Maxim+Russell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}