{"quotes":[{"text":"With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandoned","assured","beliefs","confidence","faith","god","idea","ideas","longing","lost","misbeliefs","misguided","misled","search","searching","wander","wandering"],"id":67407,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":". . . There are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["assured","attitude","boxing","capabilities","close-quarters","combat","continue","defeated","desire","desires","destroy","expert","fighter","former","hit","kenpo","latter","martial-arts","motobu","okinawa","once","precision","prowess","punching","shorinjiryu","soke","strike","will","willingness"],"id":170903,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I remembered what Dad said once, that some people have all of life's answers worked out the day they're born and there's no use trying to teach them anything new. 'They're closed for business even though, somewhat confusingly, their doors open at eleven, Monday through Friday,' Dad said. And the trying to change what they think, the attempt to explain, the hope they'll come to see your side of things, it was exhausting, because it never made a dent and afterward you only ached unbearably.","author":"Marisha Pessl","tags":["advice","assured","father","frustrating","life","life-answers","life-s-questions","no-use","teach"],"id":356836,"author_id":"Marisha+Pessl"},{"text":"Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","arrogance","arrogant","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","axiom","axioms","can-do","confidence","confident","coolheaded","deep","dictum","dictums","envious","envy","epigram","epigrams","funny","gnome","gnomes","hate","hated","hating","hatred","humble","humbled","humbling","humility","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","insightful","jealous","jealousy","levelheaded","love","loved","loving","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","modest","modesty","overconfidence","overconfident","philosopher","phlegmatic","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-assurance","self-assured","self-possessed","self-reliance","self-reliant","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful","together","underconfidence","underconfident","unperturbed","unruffled"],"id":366937,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When both partners strive for a marriage that honours and pleases God, they can be assured of an everlasting joy and peace.","author":"Gugu Mona","tags":["assured","everlasting-joy-and-peace","honours","marriage","partners","strive"],"id":374469,"author_id":"Gugu+Mona"},{"text":"Plan and plant your gifts. Pray and play your role. The harvest is assured when God manifests his anointing power in your passionate actions.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["action","actions","anoint","anointing","anointing-power","assurance","assure","assured","food-for-thought","gifts","god","hard-work","harvest","israelmore-ayivor","jehovah","manifest","manifestation","manifests","passion","passionate","passionate-actions","plan","plan-and-plant","plant","play","play-a-role","play-your-part","power","powerful","pray","pray-always","pray-and-play","pray-hard","prayer","role","work-hard"],"id":469304,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}