{"quotes":[{"text":"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for.","author":"Vladimir Nabokov","tags":["abyss","afterlife","calm","common-sense","cradle","darkness","death","eternity","existence","life","life-after-death","light","man"],"id":2057,"author_id":"Vladimir+Nabokov"},{"text":"From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["cradle","experience","grave","growth","joy","life","pain","quotes","wisdom"],"id":2955,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"Even the memory of cradling her in my arms is pure euphoria. And all that I ask out of life is that it be constant and unending euphoria.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["adorable","adventurer","aventurier","bedroom","caressing","couples","cradle","cradling","cuddling","cuteness","dreameress","embracing","eudaemonia","eudaemonic-life","eudaimonia","eudaimonic-happiness","eudaimonic-life","euphoria","euphoric","exciting-love","exciting-relationship","fall-in-love","fall-in-love-everywhere","fall-in-love-with-a-woman","fall-in-love-with-women","fall-in-love-with-your-life","females","getting-high","good-memories","good-relationships","happy-love","holding","joy","joyful-love","love-and-happiness","loving-a-girl","loving-a-woman","loving-females","loving-girls","loving-women","males","memories","memory","nostalgia","nostalgic","nostalgic-memories","pleasurable","pleasure","roman-payne","romance","romantic","romantic-feeling","romantic-souvenirs","rules-for-happiness","rules-for-success","success-and-happiness","tenderness","the-dreameress","the-wanderess","wanderess"],"id":115371,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"MotherHushed and sacred silencefills the dawning skyI ponder in this momentof our journey which is nigh...","author":"Muse","tags":["baby","child","cradle","dreams","expecting","future","gift","having-a-baby","hopes","hug","innocence","mom","mom-to-child","momma","mother","mother-and-child","mother-to-be","motherhood","new-life","new-parent","parent","poem","poetry","prose","teacher","teaching"],"id":134397,"author_id":"Muse"},{"text":"Cradle of SolitudeFor we know not why our tribulationsare given as suchour fragile formscreated from the dust...","author":"Muse","tags":["child-of-god","christian","cradle","creation","faith","hardtimes","master","poem","poetry","prose","purified","questioning-god","questions","reborn","sanctify","soul","spiritual","trials","trials-and-tribulations"],"id":204776,"author_id":"Muse"},{"text":"Heresy is the eternal dawn, the morning star, the glittering herald of the day. Heresy is the last and best thought. It is the perpetual New World, the unknown sea, toward which the brave all sail. It is the eternal horizon of progress.Heresy extends the hospitalities of the brain to a new thought.Heresy is a cradle; orthodoxy, a coffin.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["brain","brave","coffin","cradle","heresy","horizon","new-world","orthodoxy","progress","thought"],"id":216935,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"How can I everbreathe normally againafter having been cradledby the kind of sorrowso silent, that it nourishesafter having been sweptby the kind of joyso absolute, that it wounds.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["cradle","deep","joy","life","nourishing","poetry","poetry","profound","silent","sorrow"],"id":258451,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"A woman's body is a sacred temple. A work of art, and a life-giving vessel. And once she becomes a mother, her body serves as a medicine cabinet for her infant. From her milk she can nourish and heal her own child from a variety of ailments. And though women come in a wide assortment as vast as the many different types of flowers and birds, she is to reflect divinity in her essence, care and wisdom. God created a woman's heart to be a river of love, not to become a killing machine.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["art","baby","beautiful","beauty","bird","birds","body","care","caring","child","children","cradle","creator","cures","disease","divine","divinity","essence","female","female-body","female-form","females","flower","flowers","god","heal","healing","health","healthcare","heart","holy","human-body","infant","killing-machine","life","life-giver","life-giving","love","mary","medicine","milk","mother","mother-earth","mother-s-heart","mother-s-love","motherhood","mothering","nourishing","nourishment","river","river-of-love","sacred","sacred-temple","sickness","soldier","spiritual","spirituality","suzy-kassem","temple","tenderness-of-heart","vessel","war","warfare","water","wisdom","wise","woman","woman-s-body","womanhood","women"],"id":303611,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["cradle","enjoy","hate","hatred","humiliate","love","sculpt","soft","tiring","use"],"id":356538,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"Her body accepted my brutal seed and took it to swell within, just as the patient earth accepts a falling fruit into its tender soil to cradle and nourish it to grow. Came a time, just springtime last, our infant child pushed through the fragile barrier of her womb. Her legs branched out, just as the wood branches out from these eternal trees around us; but she was not hardy as they. My wife groaned with blood and ceased to breathe. Aye!, a scornful eve that bred the kind of pain only a god can withstand.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["babies","baby","blood","chidbirth","child","cradle","death","death-and-dying","death-inspirational","dying","earth","eternal","fruit","god","god-s-love","growth","infant","life","nourish","nourishment","pain","painful","pregnancy","pregnant","pregnant-woman","pregnant-women","soil","sorrow","sorrowful","stillbirth","womb"],"id":414935,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}