{"author":"Shaun Hick","author_id":"Shaun+Hick","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"There is greater clarity in the still waters of sadness, something not found in the babbling brooks of more sought after emotions.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["bright-side","clarity","despair","desperation","dont-give-up","emotions","faith","grief","hopelessness","inspirational","sadness","silver-lining","water"],"id":25611,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["blame","define","mistake","mistakes","regret","regrets"],"id":34622,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"Then come. Let me send you to see if you have lived your life serving a deity or a dream.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["deity","dream","fight","fighting","fighting-words","god","threat","threats"],"id":36538,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"Time spent doing whatever it is you do to escape your daily life would be better spent acquiring a life that needs no escape.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["achieve","achieve-your-dreams","dreams","escape","escapism","goals","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","love","motivation","motivational","passion","targets","time","writing-inspiration"],"id":72785,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"We are pushed towards eternal silence from the moment we are born. So when sadness tries to stifle us, we must not give in. We must keep whispering.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["destiny","hold-on","inspirational","keep-fighting","keepwhispering","life","never-give-up","shaun-hick","silence"],"id":75328,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"And the man who dreamt of flight has tripped and fallen in a hole.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["day-dreaming","daydreaming","daydreams","dreams","failure","falling","flight","hole","life","reality","setbacks"],"id":82606,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"When the time comes for you to leave this earth, if it doesn’t become a lesser place with your absence, then you have wasted your life.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["absence","death","extraordinary","life","live-your-life","living","living-life-to-the-fullest","potential","waste-of-life","wasting-time"],"id":84893,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"Only someone wishing to disappear would ever strive to 'fit in'.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["be-yourself","disappear","fit-in","individual","individuality","invisible","stand-out","stand-out-from-the-crowd","unique"],"id":100463,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"A night of crying has silenced me. This morning it seems the whole world is against me. I've never before felt so barren, so empty. I've never before thought the daylight to be ... My enemy. My enemy.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["barren","crying","defeated","depression","emptiness","empty","enemy","low","lowly","realisation","sadness","silence","suicide"],"id":167131,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["complicated","difficult","easy","excess","hard","logic","logical","match","needless","overkill","overthinking","simple","simple-solution","simplicity","tornado"],"id":173967,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}