{"quotes":[{"text":"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["affirmation","attitude","bad-luck","bless","blessings","circumstance","couting","discover","faith","fate","faults","good-luck","hope","hopelessness","immeasurable","inspirational","life","living","losing","loss","losses","love","measure","obstacles","pain","path","perception","perspective","stroke-of-good-luck","suzy-kassem","tragedy","world"],"id":3407,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.","author":"Donald G. Firesmith","tags":["bad-luck","bad-news","demonic","demons","evil","hell-on-earth","jinxing","possibility","something-bad","tempting-fate","war"],"id":11726,"author_id":"Donald+G.+Firesmith"},{"text":"If you were crossing the road and saw a black cat passing, you may possibly get hit by a car, or a mail boy or the sky could rain in summer, possibly snow. Those were theories, none of them were true. It was like karma; it only happens to you if you believed in them. Myths, Cecilia called them. The guy looked frozen. This is silly, she thought. He could not be that affected by the cat. Cecilia had been working here for a year and she wasn’t struck by lightning, she was alive, of course, nobody chose the cat so this is why she was the oldest pet in the store.","author":"Basma Salem","tags":["bad-luck","black-cat","humor","novel"],"id":14484,"author_id":"Basma+Salem"},{"text":"We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bad-luck","confidence","destiny","evil","evil","unlucky"],"id":29287,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don’t think Fortune has anything to do with it?","author":"Amy Neftzger","tags":["bad-luck","evil","fate","fortune","good-luck","tragedy","tragedy-of-life"],"id":40890,"author_id":"Amy+Neftzger"},{"text":"Luck comes and goes; you have to seize it. Bad luck comes and goes; it must be overcome. But I will never, never sit at the side of the road showing my wounds and shouting, 'It's destiny'!","author":"Jean Van Hamme","tags":["bad-luck","challenging","destiny","failure","good-luck","inspiration","inspirational","life","life-experiences","life-philosophy","luck","motivation","motivational","opportunities","opportunity","success"],"id":43515,"author_id":"Jean+Van+Hamme"},{"text":"Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.","author":"Amy Neftzger","tags":["bad-luck","fortune","luck"],"id":65443,"author_id":"Amy+Neftzger"},{"text":"I have always felt like a pawn... My skin color's been a curse, my missionary parents made me sober and intense, my school days brought me up against political crimes against Animals, my love life imploded and my lover died, and if I had any life's work of my own, I haven't found it yet, except in animal husbandry, if you could call it that.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["bad-luck","destiny","fate","free-will"],"id":77484,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"Blessings Are Immeasurable'You can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses with Their minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","bad-luck","blessings","chance","child","curse","cursed","fail","failing","failure","faith","falling","gains","graciousness","gratefulness","health","honor","hope","house","idea","job","life","living","lose","losing","losing-child","losing-hope","losing-someone","loss","losses","lost-everything","love","love-of-your-life","luck","moment","money","opportunity","pains","parent","pride","religion","steal","success","vices","virginity","win"],"id":81998,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Rather blessings, after counting my misfortunes, I realized how the more blessed I am.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["a-time-to-grow","bad-luck","being-strong","blessed","born-into-this","calamity","count","curses","destiny","disaster","fate","gain","god-will-make-a-way","knowledge","lessons-learned","lose","misadventure","misfortune","moving-on","realize","solutions","struggle-for-strength","things-could-be-worse","trial","tribulation","understanding","wisdom"],"id":84111,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}