{"author":"Anurag Shourie","author_id":"Anurag+Shourie","total_quotes":26,"quotes":[{"text":"Love is just like God. Some believe in it, some don’t. You can only feel love and that too if you are open to its existence. Likewise, an atheist cannot feel the presence of the divine because his mind is shut to the possibility of there being one.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["atheism","atheist","atheist-arguments","atheist","divine","god","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings"],"id":18395,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"There is a very thin line of demarcation dividing true love from unadulterated lust. What is love without the pleasures of the flesh and what is lust sans a fluttering heart?","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["heart","heart","love","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","lust","lust","lust"],"id":35743,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"But that’s the way life is; felicity and expiation play together in the narrow lanes of life like bosom friends, inseparable. You find one, and the other is always around the corner.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["buddy","felicity","friend","friends","friendship","friendship","happiness","happiness-life","happiness-positive-outlook","happiness","happiness","happiness","life","life-and-living","life-changing","life-experience","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","life-and-sayings","play"],"id":83886,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care of, so that it may survive for a longer period.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["bibliophile","bibliophiles","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","bookworm","library-books"],"id":89990,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"There is a very thin line of demarcation between bravery and foolhardiness.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["brave","bravery","courage","demarcation","fool","foolhardiness","foolishness","fools","line"],"id":157185,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"Take it easy. Live life- one day at a time. It is only when we add the regrets of 'yesterday' and worries of the 'future' to the 'present' that we end up complicating things...","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["future","future-inspirational","future","future","life","life-and-living","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","life","life-and-sayings","present","present-moment","present","regrets","regrets-in-life","regrets-of-the-past","regrets-of-yesterday","worries","worries","worries","yesterday","yesterday","yesterday"],"id":164814,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"The best-laid plans can fail for the lack of proper execution.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["execution","failure","failure","failures","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational","plan","plans"],"id":181090,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"The pain of an unpublished manuscript is akin to the trauma of bearing an unborn.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["manuscript","manuscript","pain","pain","publish","publishing","publishing-books","publishing-humor","publishing-industry","publishing-novels","trauma","unborn"],"id":205395,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"Death is the only certainty in life. The moment we are born, our journey towards our final destination begins. It’s the beauty or the ugliness of that journey that defines our life; the distances covered varying in each case. Every flower that has bloomed in the free breeze of spring has to wither in the cruel icy autumn draught.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["death","death-and-dying","death"],"id":213692,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"},{"text":"A half-truth is even more dangerous than a lie. A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for long.","author":"Anurag Shourie","tags":["dangerous","half","half-truth","half-truths","lies","lies","mislead","truth","truth-and-lies","truth","truthful"],"id":221582,"author_id":"Anurag+Shourie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}