{"quotes":[{"text":"The kind of life you live is not only determined by the level of education you attained. It's defined by the kind of love you give to God in whom you believe!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","almighty","attain","attained","attainment","beautiful-life","believe","believe-in-god","certificate","educate","education","enjoy-life","food-for-thought","god-loves-you","israelmore-ayivor","jesus-loves-you","kind","life","live","love","school"],"id":15960,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated 'saints' who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.","author":"Christopher S. Hyatt","tags":["1991","attainment","irony","martyrs","saints"],"id":19300,"author_id":"Christopher+S.+Hyatt"},{"text":"It is only when you run away from what society wants you to do with your time and then invest that time into doing what you were born to do that you can attain greatness and live a fulfilled life.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attaining-greatness","attainment","calling","conversion","convert","fulfilling-life","fulfillment","gift","great","greatness","humanity","investment","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","society","time","time-investment","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":45399,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Bells Ring, Drums ResoundWhen a bell is struck it rings, when a drum is beaten it resounds. This is because they are solid outside and empty within. It is because they have nothing inside that they are able to ring and resound.What I realize as I observe this is the Tao of true emptiness and ineffable existence.True emptiness is like the inner openness of a bell or a drum; ineffable existence is like the sounding of a bell or a drum when struck. If people can keep this true emptiness as their essence, and utilize this ineffable existence as their function, ever serene yet ever responsive, ever responsive yet ever serene, tranquil and unstirring yet sensitive and effective, sensitive and effective yet tranquil and unstirring, empty yet not empty, not empty yet empty, aware and efficient, lively and active, refining everything in the great furnace of Creation, then when the dirt is gone the mirror is clear, when the clouds disperse the moon appears; revealing the indestructible body of reality, they transcend yin and yang and Creation, and merge with the eternity of space.","author":"Liu Yiming","tags":["alchemy","attainment","awakening","buddha-nature","emptiness","harmony","tao","taoism","the-creative","ultimate-ground"],"id":49421,"author_id":"Liu+Yiming"},{"text":"Greatness cannot be attained by wasting time on frivolities of life.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attainment","calling","conversion","convert","frivolity","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","time","time-wastage","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":70273,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Don't mistake activity with achievement.","author":"John Wooden","tags":["achievement","acquirement","act","action","activity","attainment","completion","conclusion","deed","doing","energy","enterprise","exertion","feat","fulfullment","labor","occurence","perfection","performance","production","service","success","undertaking","venture","work"],"id":76284,"author_id":"John+Wooden"},{"text":"Greatness is an attainment that is bought with the currency of time.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attainment","calling","conversion","convert","currency","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","time","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":82256,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attaining-goals","attainment","danger","darkness","destruction","god","ignorance","individuality","knowledge","life","light","mountain","passion","people","power","provoke","worth"],"id":91363,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["attainment","calling","conversion","convert","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","time","time-conversion","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":99178,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","anonymous","aphorism","aphorisms","attain","attainment","axiom","axioms","bible","chance","chances","christian","christianity","christians","come-back","conscious","death","deep","dictum","dictums","dying","epigram","epigrams","fame","famous","forget","forgot","forgotten","funny","gnome","gnomes","heart","heartbeat","human","human-being","human-beings","humans","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","inconsequential","infamy","insane","insanity","insightful","insignificant","jesus","jesus-christ","judgement","judgement-day","known","last-judgement","last-name","little-known","lowly","lust","lust-for","made-me-think","make-you-think","manage","maxim","maxims","memory","minor","mortal","mortality","name","nameless","obscure","obscurity","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","remember","remembered","retain","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","second-coming","south-africa","south-african","surname","thought-provoking","thoughtful","unconscious","undistinguished","unheard-of","unimportant","unknown","unnoticed","unrecognized","unsung"],"id":153393,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}