{"quotes":[{"text":"On the seventh day of the Seventh-month, in the Palace of Long Life,We told each other secretly in the quiet midnight worldThat we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.'Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.","author":"Bai Juyi","tags":["ancient","belonging","china","death","despair","everlasting-love","heaven","life","loss","love","separation","sorrow"],"id":434,"author_id":"Bai+Juyi"},{"text":"Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one's breath.","author":"Eve Glicksman","tags":["ancient","breath","love","lover","soul","spirit","timeless"],"id":2896,"author_id":"Eve+Glicksman"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrosti","ancient","art","art-collection","art-collector","bard","guests","house","la-chascona","love","lyrics","museum","neruda","odd","ode","old","old-piece","pablo-neruda","pablo-neruda-ode","pablo-neruda-poetry-populism","people","poem","poet","poetry","preciosity","precious","precious-things","rare","rarity","rhymed","rhymes","tour","tourism","visit","visiting","visitors","walls","women"],"id":20536,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"The wisdom of our ancestors is immortal.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ancestors","ancient","education","great-people","history","inspirational","knowledge","literature","philosophy","wisdom","wise"],"id":21284,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced.","author":"Henry A. Giroux","tags":["ancient","education","learning-outcomes","moral","political"],"id":43994,"author_id":"Henry+A.+Giroux"},{"text":"It made the woman feel like a thousand seas had come together from all worlds, like faraway lands had been bridged together, and the vastness of the known and the unknown were somehow easier to comprehend.","author":"Cristina M. Sburlea","tags":["adventure","ancient","epic","epic-fantasy","epic-love","fantasy","gods","mythology","roman","titans"],"id":48038,"author_id":"Cristina+M.+Sburlea"},{"text":"People usually feel funny, smile and laugh when I tell them about my strong belief in the very existence of prehistoric advanced technology and great civilizations of wilier races. I just can't wait to see their faces at time the truth is revealed.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["alien","ancient","civilization","mystery","prehistoric","reveal","revelation","truth"],"id":49512,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"There exist continuation of time; past, present and future.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["ancient","climate-change","environmentaal-change","history","time"],"id":51579,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.","author":"Lao Tzu","tags":["ancient","chinese","inspirational","lao-tzu","philosophical","philosophy","self-reflection","spiritual","wisdom"],"id":57406,"author_id":"Lao+Tzu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":72,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}