{"quotes":[{"text":"Your brand is your personal lawyer... It defends and speaks for you even in your absence. Keep calm and maintain a good brand!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["absence","brand","brand-yourself","calm","defend","defense","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","judge","keep-calm","lawyer","maintain","personal-branding","speak"],"id":6758,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.","author":"Brendan Behan","tags":["me","said","absence "],"id":10334,"author_id":"Brendan+Behan"},{"text":"You tasted like fireAnd I miss that.So, at timesI drank a little.And at times,I drank too much.But I only drankTill it burned me enough.","author":"Saiber","tags":["absence","alcohol","breakup","burn","drinking","fire","love","missing","relationships"],"id":11349,"author_id":"Saiber"},{"text":"She'd started swimming early in the morning, when the kids were asleep, when she thought he was asleep. She didn't know her absence woke him, that the shift in the bed was an earthquake. When she climbed back in, she smelled like salt and seaweed. Sometimes her hair would still be knotted on top of her head. She tried to keep it dry. She didn't want him to know. The problem with marrying the mermaid girl from the carnival was knowing that one day she'd swim away.","author":"Erika Swyler","tags":["absence","escape","mermaids","relationships","secret","swimming"],"id":20941,"author_id":"Erika+Swyler"},{"text":"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.","author":"Wole Soyinka","tags":["criticism","greatest","absence "],"id":21045,"author_id":"Wole+Soyinka"},{"text":"7. 3. 12. 31. 208: Reckless disrespect of the lightless hours will not be tolerated.","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["absence","dark","disrespect","light"],"id":23153,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"},{"text":"Peace must be more than the absence of war.","author":"Helmut Kohl","tags":["peace","absence","must "],"id":35119,"author_id":"Helmut+Kohl"},{"text":"It is not the mountain that is our problem but the absence of knowledge on how to deal withthe mountain.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["absence","deal","knowledge","mountain"],"id":49838,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"There is a hole in the heart called 'absence'. You live in it my dear.","author":"Malak El Halabi","tags":["absence","hurt","love","missing"],"id":53257,"author_id":"Malak+El+Halabi"},{"text":"Detachment is not the absence of emotion, it is the process of becoming one with the Oneness that is the Universe. To be detached, is to realize that the fullness of all there is, is too much to react to with just one emotion, one thought, or any bias. To be detached, is to acknowledge all, without owning any of it. To be detached, is to summon forth the whole entirety of understanding, to the fragment that is the void.","author":"Justin K. McFarlane Beau","tags":["absence","acknowledge","detachement","emotion","epiphany","fragment","fullness","indifferent","knowledge","numb","oneness","realization","self-love","selfless","summoning","understanding","void","wholeness"],"id":54663,"author_id":"Justin+K.+McFarlane+Beau"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":145,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}