{"quotes":[{"text":"The next morning, when Thomasin withdrew the curtains of her bedroom window, there stood the Maypole in the middle of the greek, its top cutting into the sky. It had sprung up in the night. Or rather early morning, like Jack's bean-stalk. She opened the casement to get a better view of the garlands and posies that adored it. The sweet perfume of the flowers had already spread into the surrounding air, which being free from every taint, conducted to her lips a full measure of the fragrance received from the spire of blossom in its midst. At the top of the pole were crossed hoops decked with small flowers; beneath these came a milk-white zone of Maybloom;then a zone of bluebells, then of cowslips, then of lilacs, then of ragged-rosins, daffodils and so on, till the lowest stage was reached.Thomasin noticed all these, and was delighted that the May revel was to be so near.","author":"Thomas Hardy","tags":["beanstalk","blossom","flowers","may","maypole"],"id":5900,"author_id":"Thomas+Hardy"},{"text":"If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["blossom","business","businesses","careers","college","decisions","degree","economy","education","environment","fields","industries","industry","jobs","philosopher","philosophy","purpose","relevance","school","society","studies","together","tree","trunk","university","usefulness","work","working"],"id":49959,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["bloom","blossom","flower","guru","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","rise","sage","success"],"id":54161,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Do whatever makes your spirit glow out loud.","author":"TemitOpe Ibrahim","tags":["bliss","blossom","choose-bliss","choose-happy","do-happy","glow","glow-out-loud","inspirational","life-lessons","motivational","truth"],"id":64337,"author_id":"TemitOpe+Ibrahim"},{"text":"When I helped to develop the open standards that computers use to communicate with one another across the Net, I hoped for but could not predict how it would blossom and how much human ingenuity it would unleash.","author":"Vint Cerf","tags":["blossom","predict","human "],"id":77754,"author_id":"Vint+Cerf"},{"text":"It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls.","author":"Katharine Lee Bates","tags":["blossom","chains","easter "],"id":82137,"author_id":"Katharine+Lee+Bates"},{"text":"Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring - these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.","author":"Yoshida Kenkō","tags":["beauty","blossom","emotion","longing","moon","rain","spring","transience"],"id":115442,"author_id":"Yoshida+Kenk%C5%8D"},{"text":"Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["beauty","bloom","blossom","blossoming","brilliance","excellence","flower","genius","hurry","inner-beauty","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","masterpiece","mastery","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","patience","rose","roses","stand-out","success","take-time","time"],"id":120385,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["beauty","bloom","blossom","flower","flower","inner-beauty","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-about-life","inspirational-for-women","inspirational-motivation","matshona-dhliwayo"],"id":120434,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Street children are lovely blossoms just dropped from the tree after a heavy storm. Now they need to be put together with a needle and threads of security and shelter to live into a beautiful circle of life’s garland.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["blossom","blossoms","children","circle-of-life","flowers","garland","homeless","homelesskids","homelessness","kids","live","poverty","poverty-stricken","storm","street","street-child","street-kids","trees","wise-words"],"id":124913,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}