{"author":"Amy Harmon","author_id":"Amy+Harmon","total_quotes":68,"quotes":[{"text":"Often-times, grass was more useful than gold. Man was more desirable than a beast. Chance was more seductive than knowledge, and eternal life was completely meaningless without love.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["beast","chance","eternal-life","gold","knowledge","love","man"],"id":1392,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"True beauty, the kind that doesn't fade or wash off, takes time. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that creates the stalactite, the shaking of the Earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that breaks up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would have otherwise never existed.And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we can't see. We believe there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent, our bodies can't contain it.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["inspirational"],"id":1795,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"God wants us to receive everything that life was meant to teach. Then we take what we've learned, and it becomes our offering to God and to mankind. But we have to live in order to learn. And sometimes we have to fight in order to live.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["spiritual"],"id":5242,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"The longer he remained on this earth, the more he was sure that mankind had no clue about God or heaven. Not when they used him as an excuse to kill, to punish, to discriminate.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["evil","god","persecution","war"],"id":19261,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"I don't think we get answers to every question. We don't get all the whys. But I think when we look back to the end of our lives, if we do the best we can, and we will see that the things we begged God to take from us, the things we cursed him for, the things that made us turn our backs on him, are the things that were the biggest blessings, the biggest opportunities for growth.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["inspirational"],"id":21979,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"Life had taught her that consequences were ugly and painful, and seldom worth the pleasure they had been bartered for.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["barter","consequences","cost","exchange","karma","lesson","life","pain","painful","pleasure","result","reward","taught","teach","ugly","worth"],"id":35078,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"Saying something is “meant to be” is a cop out. It’s a way for people to deal when they screw up or when life hands them a bowl of shit stew. The things that are meant to be are the things we can’t control, the things we don’t cause, the things that happen regardless of who or what we are. Like sunsets and snow-fall and natural disasters. I’ve never believed hardship or suffering was meant to be. I’ve never believed relationships were meant to be. We choose. In large part, we choose. We create, we make mistakes, we burn bridges, we build new ones.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["choice","destiny","meant-to-be"],"id":42222,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["a-different-blue","amy-harmon","anger","angry"],"id":43579,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"He tried to soften his mouth against hers, tried to tell her he was sorry, but she stayed frozen in his arms, as if she couldn't believe, after everything that had happened, that he thought he could break her heart and take a kiss too.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["heart","kiss","love","making-faces"],"id":57287,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"},{"text":"Rita has spent her whole life being chased by boys. Because of that, she never had a chance to stop running long enough to figure out who she was and what kind of guy she should let catch her.","author":"Amy Harmon","tags":["self-worth"],"id":59687,"author_id":"Amy+Harmon"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}