{"quotes":[{"text":"For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.","author":"Seneca","tags":["anthem","happiness","intrisic-motivation","stoicism"],"id":10260,"author_id":"Seneca"},{"text":"Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["anthem","city","dystopian-fiction","fear","men","shapeless"],"id":18191,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word 'I,' could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["anthem","ayn-rand","freedom","individuality"],"id":41451,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"Let us throw away our candles and our torches. Let us flood the cities with light. Let us bring a new light to men! -Equality 7-2521.","author":"Ayn Rand","tags":["anthem","ayn-rand","individuality"],"id":135058,"author_id":"Ayn+Rand"},{"text":"This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.For as there are billionsof different stars thatmake up the skyso, too, are there billions of different humans thatmake up the Earth.Some shine brighter but all are made ofthe same cosmic dust.O the joy of beingin life with all these people!I speak of differencesbecause they are there.Like the different organsthat make up our bodies.Earth, itself, is one large body.Listen to how it howlswhen one human isin misery.When one kills another, the Earth feels the pang in itschest. When one orgasms, the Earth craves a cigarette.Look carefully,these animals are beauty spots that make the Earth’s face lovelier and more loveable.These oceans are the Earth’s limpid eyes. These trees, its hair.This is an ode to life.The anthem of the world.I will no longer speak of differences, for the similaritiesare larger. Look even closer. There may bedistances between our limbs butthere are no spaces betweenour hearts. We long to be one.We long to be in nature andto run wild with its wildlife.Let us celebrate life and living, for it is sacrilegious to be ungrateful.Let us play and be playful, for it is sacrilegiousto be serious.Let us celebrate imperfectionsand make existenceproud of us, for tomorrow isdeath, and this is an ode to life. The anthem of the world.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["anguish","animals","anthem","appreciate","beautiful","beauty","beloved","billion","bodies","body","celebrate","celebration-poems","chest","cigarette","city","closer","cosmic","country","death","differences","distance","dust","earth","existence","eyes","grateful","hair","harmony","howl","humanity","humans","imperfections","joy","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kill","kojouri","life","life-poems","limbs","listen","live","living","look","love","loveable","lovelier","lover","misery","nation","nature","now","oceans","ode","one-world","oneness","organs","orgasm","pang","peace","peacefulness","people","person","play","playful","present","proud","sacrilege","sacrilegious","seas","serious","seriousness","shine","similarities","sky","space","spiritual","spirituality","spot","stars","suffer","suffering","today","togetherness","tomorrow","trees","unappreciative","ungrateful","union","united","unity","wild","wildlife","world"],"id":147072,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I'm fiercely patriotic, and the flag and the anthem is something that I really, really respect.","author":"Abby Wambach","tags":["flag","something","anthem "],"id":184872,"author_id":"Abby+Wambach"},{"text":"If every citizen should recite their national anthem daily, you will develop love to serve your country better.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["anthem","calling","cities-and-countries","citizen","citizen-power","citizens-of-humanity","daily","daily-inspirational","daily","destiny","development","duties","educational-philosophy","gifts","humanity-advice","inspirational","leaders","leadership","lessons-learnt","life-and-living","love","mission","missionary","music","nation","national-service","peace","peace-corps","peacefulness","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","places","positive-thoughts","responsibilities","servant-leader","service","society","talents","volunteer","volunteering","volunteerism","wisdom","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words","work","working","working-together","you","your-journey","your-life"],"id":315035,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}