{"author":"Ufuoma Apoki","author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"And then, that feeling comes again when you seem invincible and totally awesome. You simply can't hold it in and you just smile to everyone you come across; infectiously, they have no choice but to smile back. You are more than convinced in your guts that something beautifully indescribable is coming your way. You just drown yourself in the feeling of awesomeness. Faith, probably . . . Or the hands of providence?","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["awesome","awesomeness","beautiful feeling","conviction","faith","feeling","feeling-alive","feeling-invincible","guts","invincibility","invincible","providence","smile"],"id":42998,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"Give as much you can possibly give, even if, or when, you do not receive. For the more you give, the more the heart gets 'bigger' and 'stronger'. So, never for one moment you hold back from giving, until the heart has nothing left to give again.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["give-yourself-away","give-yourself-to-love","heart","love","love-with-your-heart","unconditional-love"],"id":47638,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"You don't always get your dreams come to you in FULL DEFINITION. It usually comes in bits and pieces of the picture you've conceived in your mind; but it certainly comes. And when it comes, even blurry in LOW DEFINITION, and you recognize it, all you've got to do is make a little tweaks here and there and then you can fine tune it to the BEST DEFINITION. You however, have to DREAM!","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["dreams","hidden-treasures","hope","sensitivity"],"id":71708,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"A lady laced with grace . . . Such, is impossible to despise.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["grace","graceful","graceful-lady","lady","woman-s-character"],"id":78405,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem just like that one thing you want.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["discernment","distractions","focus","persistence"],"id":83654,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"If ANYTHING is meant to be, it will be ONLY if you work out the methodologies for it to be. Things just don't be because they work themselves out to be, or they want to be. They be because someone conceived them to be, and worked them out to be. Therefore, debunk the idea of leaving your THINGS to be in the fragile gamble of fate. MAKE THEM BE!","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["destiny","dreaming-big","dreams-and-reality","making-dreams-come-true"],"id":84945,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"The heart, so small, yet, able to grow so large, sometimes always wants to take or give more than can be managed successfully. Thanks to the rational head, though, it's always there to save her from taking more than she can contain. . . . Or so it thinks.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["blind love","love","love hurts","loving others","loving someone"],"id":91420,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"For every decision a 'man' makes, he makes it with the best of the depth of knowledge he possess at that particular instant and the quality of experiences he's passed through. It's not an excuse though for mediocrity, but an avenue to learn, rise, and conquer your inefficient self. By inference, beyond an extreme line, there might not necessarily be a qualification of a choice as wrong or right, but an avenue to grow depending on how the intricacies of such a choice and its consequences are handled.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["beyond-limits","choices","empathy","experiences","judging-others","learning","mistakes"],"id":102349,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"She seems to always get itTo have become adept at empathyAlways giving excuses for people who’ve aggrieved herTo the point it’s hard for her to hit back when necessary All because she assumes she ‘understands’Then, one day . . .She finally stands up for herselfAt that moment, she revels in the natural instinct of self-preservationShe realises all this while the power she’s been withholdingIn a transcendent moment of epiphanyIt’s all beautiful ‘causeNow, she can get back to empathy with understanding, rather, than without.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["aggrieve","empathy","epiphany","evolution","evolution-process","evolutionary-psychology","excuses","natural-instincts","self-awareness","self-preservation","standing-up","standing-up-for-oneself","understanding","understanding-oneself","understanding-others","withholding"],"id":104971,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"Virtues should not be seen as a medium to please others, else, they'll always fall short. They should, first, be a medium of self-edification.","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["edification","edify","falling-short","please-people","priority","self-edification","virtue","virtue","virtues"],"id":106440,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}