{"author":"Sri Chinmoy","author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy","total_quotes":83,"quotes":[{"text":"When I think good thoughts, I feel that man is not, after all, so bad.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["inspirational","thought"],"id":2501,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope,Even in the sunset of your life.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["hope","old-age"],"id":7935,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"Do you want to change the world?Then change yourself first.Do you want to change yourself?Then remain completely silent inside the silence-sea.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["change-the-world","silence"],"id":14848,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the world by the vibrations that we offer to it. If we can invoke peace and then offer it to somebody else, we will see how peace expands from one to two persons, and gradually to the world at large. Peace will come about in the world from the perfection of individuals. If you have peace, I have peace, he has peace, and she has peace, then automatically universal peace will dawn.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["inner-peace","peace","world-peace"],"id":15589,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"Death is not the end death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["death","dying"],"id":31756,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"To simplify your life, just think of yourself as a four-year-old child. Try to imagine the way he thinks of reality. If you have to talk to someone about a so-called complicated matter, see how you can simplify it.No matter with whom you are talking, feel that you are a child and that person is also a child. When a childlike quality comes into your life, everything automatically becomes simple.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["child","childlikeness","simplicity"],"id":33435,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["smiling","mind","will "],"id":43778,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"True inner joy is self-created.It does not depend on outer circumstances.A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy.This divine joy is the sole purpose of life.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["joy"],"id":48080,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"If we have a simple existence, we shall feel how happy and how fortunate we are. There are some people who are of the opinion that simplicity is almost tantamount to stupidity. But simplicity and stupidity are like the North Pole and the South Pole. One can be as simple as a child and, at the same time, one can have boundless knowledge, light and wisdom.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["simplicity","wisdom"],"id":50697,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"},{"text":"Gratitude is the sweetest thing in a seeker's life- in all human life. If there is gratitude in your heart, then there will be tremendous sweetness in your eyes.","author":"Sri Chinmoy","tags":["gratitude","sweetness"],"id":60814,"author_id":"Sri+Chinmoy"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}