{"quotes":[{"text":"Most of my failures can be ascribed to the fact that I chose that which was ‘easy’ over that which was ‘right’. And while it’s ‘right’ to admit this to myself, it isn’t ‘easy.’ So, which choice am I going to make this time?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["acknowledge","admit","choice","choices","choosing","chose","correct","decide","deciding","decisions","easier","easy","ethical","fail","failed","failure","fool","foolish","moral","right","wisdom","wise"],"id":46953,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Imagine, if you will:A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","accompanied","and","as","beings","by","called","chose","constellations","creatures","darkness","deceptively","deserted-worlds","different","distant-telescopes","during","human","imagine","into","many","name","nine","numerous","of","on","one","planets","points","ramalama","simply","somewhere","space","star","themselves","they","times","to","too","twice","vantage","will"],"id":64193,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice in the interpretation of a word. And each time they make one of these choices, they are taken further from the truth. But what we aren’t told is that this isn’t a shortcoming of translation; it’s a shortcoming of language itself. As soon as we try to put reality into words, we limit it. Words are not reality, they are the cause of reality, and thus reality is always more. Writers aren't alchemists who transmute words into the aurous essence of the human experience. No, they are glassmakers. They create a work of art that enables us to see inside to help us understand. And if they are really good, we can see our own reflections staring back at us.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["alchemists","art","artists","artwork","aurous","choice","choose","chose","comprehend","equal","equivalence","equivalent","explain","explanation","fork","glass","glassmaker","gold","help","human-experience","interpret","interpretation","interpretation","interpreter","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","language","limit","limitation","linguistics","mirror","paraphrase","poets","portray","read","reading","reality","reflection","restate","reveal","road","shortcoming","simplify","speak","talk","told","translating","translation","translation","translator","transmute","truth","understand","words","write","writer","writers","writing","writing"],"id":132339,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["choices","choosing","chose","conclude","conclusion","destroy","destroying","destruction","end","ignorance","ignorant","illogical","insane","insanity","irrational","preposterous","short-sighted","wisdom","wise"],"id":154689,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Learn the difference between good and great and then chose greatness.","author":"Jeffrey Fry","tags":["between","chose","good","great","greatness","learn"],"id":164544,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Fry"},{"text":"There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["away","chose","conquer","human","infliction","law","nature","philosophical","philosophy-of-life","poem","poetry","poetry","science","soul","spiritual","sweep","unchained","will"],"id":193860,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"text":"Happy people can look back and say they chose their life, not settled for it.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["action","chose","dreams","goals","happiness","happy","happy-people","life","paths","setting-goals","settling"],"id":207023,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"She chose to freeze her heart, and then stored it deep inside her freezer.She will let it there until she is ready.","author":"Kusumastuti","tags":["chose","deep","freeze","freezer","heart","inside","let","ready","she","stored","there","until"],"id":210746,"author_id":"Kusumastuti"},{"text":"Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["behind","big-dreams","choice","choices","choose","chose","chosen","deliberate","direct","direction","directions","dream-big","dreams","drive","food-for-thought","intentional","israelmore-ayivor","succeed","success","successful"],"id":211003,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["accountant","accountants","accounting","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","at-odds","axiom","axioms","bad-people","bad-person","bankrupt","bankruptcy","business","business-man","business-men","business-people","business-person","business-woman","business-women","businesses","choice","choose","chose","clash","companies","company","conflict","contradict","contradiction","deep","desire","desires","dictum","dictums","dilemma","epigram","epigrams","force","forced","friction","funny","gnome","gnomes","good-people","good-person","humor","humorous","humour","income","incomes","incompatibility","incompatible","insightful","loss","losses","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maximize","maxims","maximum","minimize","minimum","mismatch","money","philosopher","profit","profit-and-loss","profits","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","revenue","revenues","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","seller","sellers","selling","south-africa","south-african","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":235706,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}