{"quotes":[{"text":"A divided kingdom cannot defend itself from its adversaries. A divided person cannot face life in a dignified way.","author":"Paulo Coelho","tags":["adversaries","divided","life","truth"],"id":68805,"author_id":"Paulo+Coelho"},{"text":"The most courageous act in politics is to try to understand your opponent.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["adversaries","both-sides","opponents","politics","understanding"],"id":90448,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["adversaries","back-bite","back-biting","behaviour","bite","biting","critics","enermies","flavor","flavour","foes","fresh","fresh-life","good-behaviour","good-habit","good-life","gossiping","gossips","habit","happy","haters","life","live-life-so-well","love","not-expected","obey","respect","smile","surprise","surprising","sweet","sweet-life","taste","unexpected"],"id":139325,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"As soon as you start fulfilling your purpose your adversaries will appear.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["adversaries","calling","fulfillment","purpose"],"id":143720,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If we demand perfection from ourselves we are not living in the real world...The inherent problem in the relationship between the ideal \u0026 the real is that the ideal judges the real as unacceptable and brings down condemnation and wrath on the real. This sets up an adversarial relationship between the two and like all adversaries, they move further and further apart.","author":"Henry Cloud","tags":["adversaries","perfectionism","perfectly-imperfect","real-world","self-esteem","self-hate","self-hatred","self-judgement","true-self"],"id":161815,"author_id":"Henry+Cloud"},{"text":"He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.","author":"John Lanchester","tags":["adversaries","competition","conflict","contrariness","difficulties"],"id":208896,"author_id":"John+Lanchester"},{"text":"Do not allow the adversaries to hinder you from fulfilling what God has planned for you.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["adversaries","calling","fulfillment","purpose"],"id":269985,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If your enemy offers you two targets, strike at a third.","author":"Robert Jordan","tags":["adversaries","adversary","battle","strategy","war"],"id":344433,"author_id":"Robert+Jordan"},{"text":"If you are focused on your calling, the efforts of any adversary will prove powerless.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["adversaries","calling","effort","focus","fulfillment","purpose"],"id":352852,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"When God's favour and Godly flavour is in you, your haters will taste wisdom and the only thing they can do is to regret ever tasting a sweet thing.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["adversaries","almighty-god","critics","enermies","favor","favour","flavor","flavour","foes","food-for-thought","fresh","fresh-life","god","god-s-favor","god-s-favour","godly","hate","haters","israelmore-ayivor","life","love","regret","sweet","sweet-life","sweet-thing","taste","tasting","very-wise","wisdom","wise","you"],"id":368103,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}