{"author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes","total_quotes":146,"quotes":[{"text":"A balanced dieT to make you die with a tea, consists of holding two bags of cookies on each hand and a voracious hunger to consume.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["consumerism","consumption","cookies","diet-industry","dieting","humorous","industrial-food","nourishment","nourishment-of-soul","sugar-addiction"],"id":10837,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"A feeling of joy if not shared or tasted is a waste of a chance to be embraced.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["embrace-life","embrace-opportunities","embrace-who-you-are","embrace-worthiness","embraced","feeling-good","feelings","happiness","happiness-advice","joy","joyful-living","joyful-thankful","living","living-in-the-present","living-well","sharing","tips","tips-to-live-happy-life"],"id":17771,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrosti","ancient","art","art-collection","art-collector","bard","guests","house","la-chascona","love","lyrics","museum","neruda","odd","ode","old","old-piece","pablo-neruda","pablo-neruda-ode","pablo-neruda-poetry-populism","people","poem","poet","poetry","preciosity","precious","precious-things","rare","rarity","rhymed","rhymes","tour","tourism","visit","visiting","visitors","walls","women"],"id":20536,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["alchemy","attitude","gold","happiness","mood","motivation","storm","thoughts","weather"],"id":21715,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"The less you move on the groundthe more the world moves around.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["change-the-world","change-your-life","changes","changing-the-world","dao","energy","keep-changing","keep-going","keep-learning","keep-moving-forward","keep-trying","keeping-faith","moving-forward","moving-on","moving-on-and-letting-go","physical","physical-activity","physical-health","physics","spiritual","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","stages-of-life","stagnant","stagnation","tao","world"],"id":26535,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages.(....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day….","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["accounts","characters","chronicles","creative-process","creative-writing","enigmas","fictional-characters","funny","habits","hybrid","imagination","inspiration","jokes","life","mix","mysteries-of-life","mystery-novels","odd","oddity","one-hundred-one","people","people-relations","puns","real-character","real-life-drama","real-people","reality","short-stories","tales","tips","traits","writing","writing-tips"],"id":27911,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["being-your-best","being-your-true-self","being-yourself","challenge","defience","difficulties","doing-your-life-s-work","dream-job","enduring","enduring-hardships","ethical-behaviour","ethical-teaching","happiness","job","learning","obstacles","polishing","pressure","refine","refinement","resistance","searching-for-happiness","work","work-ethic","works","works-righteousness"],"id":31818,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["ballet","black-holes","creation","energy","ghosts","horror","love","metaphysical","mystery-suspense","science"],"id":35845,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Heaven is thine and so it's mine. Elated, I cannot give to thee but receive it sublime. And if it's there to shine for all to see,.. Vast sea of love for us to seize. Ease the pain with a sweet kiss, water the Flowers...No shadows of a perfect bliss but the sunshine of ours.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["bliss","ease-of-mind","elated","elation","heaven","love","loving","rays-of-light","spiritual","sublime","sublime-love","sunshine"],"id":40370,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["association","difference","divination","grain","guess","guess-what","guessing","rain","similar","similar-paths","similarites","similiarity","words","words","words-that-heal"],"id":40896,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":146,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}
