{"quotes":[{"text":"Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["blessing","broke","deception","gold-diggers","greed","karma","loss","love","money","patience","regrets","relationship","stupidity","suffer","sufficiency"],"id":38213,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","broke","clothes","clothing","deep","dictum","dictums","dine","dinner","employ","employee","employees","employer","employers","employment","epigram","epigrams","fast","food","gnome","gnomes","humor","humour","hunger","hungry","insightful","job","jobs","loan","loans","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","payday","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","salaries","salary","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","starve","supper","sustenance","thought-provoking","thoughtful","transparency","transparent","wage","wages","work","worker","workers"],"id":47909,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"They throw rice at a new marriage, then give him beans in a divorcement.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["adultry","alimony","annulment","assets","beans","broke","child-support","custody","divorce","drained","entitlement","family-court","loss","marital-laws","marriage","medical","money","payments","ratio","rice","settlement","upperhand","wife-friendly"],"id":79209,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest.When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible.When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself.Times when you are embarrassed.Times when you are hurtful.Times when you relish in a hearty meal.Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day.'What are they made of?' he asked again.'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'I picked up one of the specks with the tipof my finger.'Do you remember this?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.''Why?' I asked.'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["birth","broke","compare","compliment","content","cute","day","embarrass","former","hammer","heart","hours","hurtful","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lesson","love","love-poem","loving","meal","measure","minutes","moments","morning","place","possible","present","prisoner","prose","quote","race","scale","seconds","service","speck","spot","tally","times","whistle","win","wipe","wisdom","wrist"],"id":81048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affluent","bashful","broke","confidence","confident","destitute","introvert","introverted","low-self-esteem","money","needy","penniless","poor","poverty","poverty-stricken","reserved","rich","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-esteem","sheepish","shy","shyness","timid","wealth","wealthy"],"id":86631,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affirmative-action","affluence","affluent","bed","bedroom","beggary","broke","capital","cash","cleaned-out","destitute","destitution","dough","equality","filthy-rich","finance-assets","flat-broke","flush","fortune-money","funds","hard-up","hardship","holdings","house","impecunious","impecuniousness","impoverished","impoverishment","in-debt","in-the-money","indigence","indigent","inequality","insolvent","kitchen","loaded","low-income","lucre","made-of-money","means","moneyed","moneyless","moola","moolah","necessitous","need","neediness","needy","opulent","pauperdom","pauperism","pauperized","penniless","pennilessness","penury","poor","possessions","poverty","poverty-stricken","property","prosperity","prosperous","reserves","resources","riches","rolling-in-it","rolling-in-money","rolling-in-the-dough","securities","silk-stocking","size-counts","size-does-not-count","size-doesn-t-count","stinking-rich","stock","strapped-formal-penurious","substance","treasure","unable-to-make-ends-meet","wealthy","well-heeled","well-off","well-to-do","wherewithal","without-a-cent-to-one-s-name","without-a-sou"],"id":180742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Children don't understand, when things aren't given. The single parent struggling to provide; how they sacrifice themselves, by sweeping their dreams and goals under the table, just to bring bread and beans on the table.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["breadcrumbs","broke","children","deficient","lacking","missing","poor","provide","sacrifice","single-parent","stress","strive","struggle","sufficient","want","without"],"id":191250,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Rules are rules... Sometimes we should get out of them other times we get caugh for breaking the rules... But what happens when a relative is affected in your work?Like you have to choose the relative or the work... What happens then!?","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["break","broke","choose","relative","rules"],"id":236983,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"I won't let that night ruin you forever.' But it did, it broke me into a million pieces and blew them away in the wind, like crumbled leaves.","author":"Jessica Sorensen","tags":["broke","broken","crumbled","ella","ella-and-micha","micha","night","ruin","sad","trauma"],"id":237007,"author_id":"Jessica+Sorensen"},{"text":"We fell in love and heard thousands of words in every silence between us. Then we fell apart and heard only silence in thousands of words we spoke to each other.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["broke","fall-apart","love","pain","silence","we","words"],"id":255130,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}