{"quotes":[{"text":"Being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. It’s not so much, what’s the point? It’s more like, what’s the difference?","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["bottom","death","difference","give-up","giving-up","ground-floor","life","loss","point","purpose","suicide","unheard"],"id":3771,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, books, boxes, snatches of music and fragments of voices, all caught up in a sinister, bottomless whirlpool.","author":"Fernando Pessoa","tags":["bottom","images","madness","ocean","soul","vacuum","void","water"],"id":50396,"author_id":"Fernando+Pessoa"},{"text":"It is much harder than you might think to show people your bottom.","author":"Mark Forsyth","tags":["bottom","humour","mark-forsyth"],"id":98525,"author_id":"Mark+Forsyth"},{"text":"Level, is spelled the same forward and backwards. Those on the upper level can always hit the bottom, and those on the bottom can always rank to the top. Envision your footprints up there already trailing, and your feet will soon follow suit.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["believe","believe-and-achieve","bottom","discourage","dream","envision","feet","footprint","goals","hard-work","level","pay-off","rank","top","upper","work-hard"],"id":107424,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Despite their depressing circumstances, the Hernandez family had a certain dignity and strength about them. They were Christians, and they taught their children that God loved them and had a plan for their lives. Their little boy, David, internalized that message of hope. He never thought of himself as a victim even though he had every reason to feel cheated. His family was at the bottom of the social ladder without even a house to live in, but his worth as an individual was rooted in his faith.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["bottom","cheated","christians","every","faith","family","feel","god","he","himself","hope","house","individual","lives","loved","never","plan","reason","rooted","social","their","them","thought","victim","worth"],"id":124285,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"},{"text":"When I’m at the bottom looking up, the main question may not be ‘how do I get out of this hole?’ In reality, the main question might be ‘how do I get rid of the shovel that I used to dig it?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accountability","bottom","difficulties","difficulty","dig","hole","honest","honesty","question","responsibility","responsible","rock-bottom","self-analysis","self-discovery","shovel"],"id":169083,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the top of the list - or right at the very bottom. And almost always for exactly the wrong reasons.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["bottom","depending","interesting","issues","lgbt","list","person-in-power","wrong-reasons"],"id":260156,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bottom","calm","calm-down","catch-fire","collide","collision","cool","fire","food-for-thought","gentle","gently","heat","israelmore-ayivor","our-peace","peace","peace-like-a-river","planets","quench","rive","sea","solar-system","soul","souls","space","sun","surface"],"id":265868,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We tend to perseverate on the fact that as far as we might have fallen, there’s always another bottom underneath the one we’re laying on. Yet, for every bottom underneath us, there’s always endless opportunity above us.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bottom","fall","fallen","falling","opportunity","optimism","optimistic","pessimism","pessimistic","possibility","underneath"],"id":267124,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}