{"quotes":[{"text":"We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( 'Everybody his story' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["attune","bound","chosen","everybody","fabulate","find","fractious","hitches","hunker-down","inspiring","invent","life","lifestory","living","make-sense","make-time","meaning","orientation","patience","road-map","script","time-and-again","write"],"id":10374,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"There’s glory and honour in being chosen. But not much room for free will.","author":"Elizabeth Wein","tags":["chosen","code-name-verity","freedom","freedom-of-choice"],"id":14823,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Wein"},{"text":"God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that God gifts His chosen leaders with a very unusual blessing. You might even call it a weird blessing because most of the time we call it...A burden.","author":"Craig Groeschel","tags":["a","always","aren-t","beautiful","because","better","bigger","blessing","blessings","burden","call","chosen","even","gifts","god","god-s","his","it","leaders","might","most","of","the","time","unusual","very","we","weird","with","you"],"id":18428,"author_id":"Craig+Groeschel"},{"text":"For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.","author":"Chris Anderson","tags":["beheading","chosen","democracy","great-men","leaders","liberty","soccer","the-french","voltaire"],"id":38709,"author_id":"Chris+Anderson"},{"text":"The more I change my old habits of thinking as that little boy with the shell, the easier it is for me to truly be the person I’ve chosen to be.","author":"Genereux Philip","tags":["change","chosen","genereux-philip","habits","inpirational","inspiration","little-boy","motivation","motivational","person","shell","thinking"],"id":53350,"author_id":"Genereux+Philip"},{"text":"God has chosen you for a purpose.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["chosen","god","purpose"],"id":73803,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I don't believe god has a darling tribe or nation, all tribes and nations are his darlings.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki-habyarimana","belief","chosen","chosen-nation","darling","exclusion","exclusionism","faith","god","particularism","particularism","religion","tribe"],"id":75604,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"You are today where your decisions have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your decisions will take you. If you really want to know who you are now, take a tour about the decisions you made some years back.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["actions","choice","choose","chosen","decide","decisions","destiny","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","today","tomorrow"],"id":79384,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live within the boundaries these times.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["boundaries","chosen","god","life","living","times"],"id":92217,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"I had chosen to use my work as a reflection of my values.","author":"Sidney Poitier","tags":["reflection","values","chosen "],"id":98640,"author_id":"Sidney+Poitier"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":43,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}