{"author":"C. JoyBell C.","author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C.","total_quotes":591,"quotes":[{"text":"Writing, music, sculpting, painting, and prayer! These are the three things that are most closely related! Writers, musicians, sculptors, painters, and the faithful are the ones who make things out of nothing. Everybody else, they make things out of something, they have materials! But a written work can be done with nothing, it can begin in the soul! A musical piece begins with a harmony in the soul, a sculpture begins with a formless, useless piece of rock chiseled and formed and molded into the thing that was first conceived in the sculptor's heart! A painting can be carried inside the mind for a lifetime, before ever being put onto paper or canvass! And a prayer! A prayer is a thought, a remembrance, a whisper, a communion, that is from the soul going to what cannot be seen, yet it can move mountains! And so I believe that these five things are interrelated, these five kinds of people are kin.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["art","artists","music","painting","prayer","sculpting","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":789,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Roses are picked every day, they are told that they will be better off sold in the flower shoppe. And so they go from the hands of the picker; to the hands of the delivery man; to the hands of the florist; to the hands of the customer; and then often to the hands of the final recipient of the rose. From field, cut by scissors and passed from hand to hand. The world has forgotten that it is okay for roses to be in fields, the world has forgotten the beauty of the rose uncut. The bouquet is praised and given away but the wild roses are forgotten. People have forgotten what “wild” means; they think it means something entirely different. The wild rose remains untouched, with roots and swayed by the meadow winds. And that is wild. I am wild for having roots and for being untouched and for seeing things that people have forgotten. And I will always remember— that it is okay to be uncut, that it is okay to be untouched by darkness, it is okay to be wild.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["appreciating-innocence","freedom-to-be-safe","inspirational-living","inspirational","purity","the-freedom-of-safety","the-meaning-of-wild","the-value-of-purity","the-value-of-safety","true-wildness","uncut-roses","untouched","wild-roses","wisdom"],"id":2448,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"If you lack the humility to go back and tie up the loose ends in your past, then be prepared to forever be haunted by her ghosts, all of whom will come into your present and your future— staining everything and everyone with their leftover emotional and mental garbage. Humility is the master key that can get you out of all your cages; why do you choose your ego and stay in your prisons?","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["ego","ghosts-of-the-past","humility","tying-up-loose-ends"],"id":3769,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Men are taught how to be what a woman wants and women are taught how to be what a man wants, therefore, people end up with people because there is something offered which they want; not because they see the other person, understand the other person, share the other person's dreams... Why are not men and women being taught how to show other people their dreams, the colours of their souls, their fears and pains, their joys and laughters? People should be falling in love with people! Not with ideas!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["inspirational-love","stupidity-of-man","true-love","wisdom"],"id":4385,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don't fit into their box are weird. But I'll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like genetically-manipulated plants growing inside a laboratory, like indistinguishable faces, like droids. Like ignorance.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["difference","differences","droids","fitting-in","generic","generic-people","ignorance","life","life-and-living","living","living-inside-a-box","monotonous","people","societies","society","weird","weirdness"],"id":6641,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["finding-yourself","guidance","inner-worlds","inspirational","the-inner-you","the-path-of-enlightenment","the-true-you","wisdom","your-inner-self"],"id":7680,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more people are entertained by their beauty, the more beautiful they think they must be. This is very unfortunate and I would like young girls to know that their beauty is a crown; not a clown. And crowns are best worn with elegance and serenity.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["advice-for-young-girls","beauty","beauty-is-a-crown","beauty-of-a-girl","beauty-of-a-woman","clown","crown","elegance","serenity","the-quality-of-beauty","what-is-beauty","widom-for-women","wisdom","women-s","young-girls","young-women"],"id":8819,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"We can't be afraid to change. You may fell secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know there is a such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, maybe the very reason you don't have something better.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["change"],"id":8849,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"I think that the best thing we can do for our children is to allow them to do things for themselves, allow them to be strong, allow them to experience life on their own terms, allow them to take the subway... Let them be better people, let them believe more in themselves.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["childhood","children","fatherhood","growing-up","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspiring","kids","life","life-and-living","living","motherhood","parenthood","parenting","parenting-children"],"id":9561,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"God and Destiny are not against us, rather they are for us, they are the ones who never forget the things we have long forgotten, the ones who hear the desires of our heart that our own heads can't hear, and they are the ones who never forget who we really are, long after our minds have forgotten the images of who we are. We come from God and we belong to Destiny, yet for some reason of ignorance we think that to be the master of our own fates and the captain of our own souls means to write everything down on a paper and plan everything out on a grid! Such great things to be done, and we think they are accomplished by our primitive ways! No. We must only know what we want. And want what we want. And then fly high enough to see all that which we want that we couldn't yet see.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["belief","destiny","flying","flying-spirit","god","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspirational","life","living","meaning-of-life","truth"],"id":10504,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":591,"pages":60,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}