{"quotes":[{"text":"Depression is state of deep anxiety. It is better to pray about everything than worry about nothing.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["anxiety","depress","despair","motivation","wise-words"],"id":1234,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I’ve seen how cigarettes went from being advertised in every type of media to being something found to be deadly… they can’t kill me no matter how many of them I smoke but I’ve seen humans die from smoking them… if I were you I would stop smoking them.”“Why should I? You smoke ‘em all the time, you chain-smoke cigarettes,” Mandy pointed out.“Yeah, I started doing that back in the Sixties… for reasons you likely saw on those VHS tapes… but I’m not a person, I’m Pollution, things like that aren’t dangerous to me but they are to you,” Alecto told her. “It’s not a good idea.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["anti-smoking","attack","blast-from-the-past","cancer","chain-smoke","cigar","cigarette","creepy","deadly","depress","depression","disturbing","education","eerie","gray","grief","haunting","health","horror","knowledge","loss","no-smoking","past","pollution","retro","scary","self-help","sick","smog","smoke","spooky","times","tobacco","trapped","vhs-tape","video"],"id":26558,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Cast your anxious thoughts upon the Lord. He waits to hear you speak!","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","anxiety","anxious","belief","burdens","christian-life","depress","faith","god","hard-times","healthy-living","hope","inner-strength","life","motivation","positive-outlook","positive-thinking","prayer","religion","self-help","stress","struggle","thoughts","trouble"],"id":34379,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Self-hatred is self-imprisonment. Self-forgiveness is self-liberation. You have the right to suppress yourself, oppress yourself and depress yourself. You have the right to impress yourself too. Feel happy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["anger","compress","depress","don-t-hate-yourself","food-for-thought","forgiveness","free","freedom","glad","happiness","happy","hatred","impress","impression","impressive","imprison","israelmore-ayivor","liberate","liberation","liberty","oppress","oppression","sad","self","self-hatred","self-imprisonment","self-liberation","suppress","suppression","unhappy","yourself"],"id":56345,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"A lot of people who read my novel 'Smog City' ask me why I never killed off either of the two main characters. To be honest, it's because I've given them life. Not literally of course, but since I spent so much time developing and creating my characters, they've ended up with complex personalities, in fact they're almost sentient in a way, and to write them off as dead would be like killing a close friend to me.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["book","character","character-development","create","death","depress","emotion","grief","novel","publish","read","sentient","sentient-beings","write","writing"],"id":65613,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Pain will come with time, but time will heal the pain.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["cut-to-the-quick","depress","distress","grieve","healing","hurt","injure","pain","sadden","sorrow","time","trouble","wound"],"id":75129,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"You will ever depress the devil if you always love those who spit hatred into your face. The devil loves vengeance and anything contrary to this is an agenda to bring down his temporal kingdom!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["contrary","depress","depression","devil","enemies","enemies-to-lovers","evil","food-for-thought","frenemies","haters","hatred","israelmore-ayivor","kingdom","love","love-people","love-your-neighbor-as-yourself","love-your-neighbour-as-yourself","lovers-to-enemies","satan","temporal","vengeance"],"id":80446,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When I was working on the book 'The Life Of One Kid 7', I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... One moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["depress","depression","explained","explaining","for","god","hurts","inside","moment","mother","outside","realise","sake"],"id":122297,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appearance","belief","beliefs","believe","convince","depress","depressed","depression","fail","failures","funny","happiness","happy","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","impression","impressions","joke","jokes","quotations","quotes","sad","sadness","satire","unhappiness","unhappy"],"id":151958,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Do well to impress; don't depress, suppress or oppress anyone. Inspire a soul; never despise!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["depress","despise","food-for-thought","impress","impression","inspirations","inspire","israelmore-ayivor","motivate","motivations","oppress","oppression","soul","suppress","suppression"],"id":158694,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}