{"quotes":[{"text":"The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.","author":"Rohinton Mistry","tags":["circumstance","loneliness"],"id":1819,"author_id":"Rohinton+Mistry"},{"text":"Stop counting your losses and start counting your blessings. Only then will you discover that losses are always easier to point out and count than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber your losses, for they are truly immeasurable.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["affirmation","attitude","bad-luck","bless","blessings","circumstance","couting","discover","faith","fate","faults","good-luck","hope","hopelessness","immeasurable","inspirational","life","living","losing","loss","losses","love","measure","obstacles","pain","path","perception","perspective","stroke-of-good-luck","suzy-kassem","tragedy","world"],"id":3407,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Moksha (Liberation) is to become free from gathering \u0026 dispersing of circumstances.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["circumstance","disperse","free","gather","liberation","moksh","moksha","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":4419,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Tell me, who have never be knocked down by life’s circumstances?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","circumstance","difficult-times","inner-strength","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life-struggles","overcoming-fear","situation","strength","wisdom"],"id":4618,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Abhorrence towards bitter circumstances and attachment towards sweet ones is the nature of agnan (ignorance of the self). Bitter and sweet will not exist if agnan (ignorance of the self) leaves.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["abhorrence","atma","attachment","bitter-circumstance","circumstance","ignorance","self","soul","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":5736,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Every human is born of collusion. We come into this world the result of a covenant. Sometimes made of love, Sometimes of circumstance. But almost always made in secret.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["circumstance","collusion","covenant","love","revenge","revenge-tv-series","secret"],"id":7109,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"},{"text":"The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a girl been naturally joyus yet all that had befallen her must surely have driven away the bright birds, one by one, from her breast. As it was, made of more sombre clay, capable of deep happiness, but more easily drawn to the dark than the light, Fuchsia was even more open to the cruel winds of circumstance which appeared to have singled her out for particular punishment.","author":"Mervyn Peake","tags":["circumstance","coping","depression","happiness","personality"],"id":15512,"author_id":"Mervyn+Peake"},{"text":"Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.","author":"Michel de Montaigne","tags":["chance","circumstance","dominion","life"],"id":18329,"author_id":"Michel+de+Montaigne"},{"text":"#Cats are marvelous creatures - they either adapt to circumstances, or decide to make circumstances adapt to them. Either way - they win.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["adapt","adaptation","cat","cats","circumstance","circumstances","compete","competition","creature","creatures","decide","decision","decisions","marvel","marvelous","meow","nothing","regardless","stubborn","stubbornness","winning","wonder","wonderful"],"id":24789,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"On no account should you entertain being a victim of your own circumstances. When unexpected failure occurs, you can turn it into success.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["account","circumstance","circumstances","difficult","difficulties","entertain","entertainment","fail","failure","food-for-thought","israelmore-ayivor","positive","positive-attitude","predicarment","problems","succeed","success","successful","suffering","victim"],"id":39095,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":101,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}