{"quotes":[{"text":"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","ashamed","deny","diminish","foolish","foolishness","ignorance","ignore","importance","invisible","reject","stupid","stupidity","valuable","value","wisdom","wise"],"id":14403,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["absence","appreciate","appreciated","cheapen","cherish","diminish","esteem","regard","regret","regretful","reversal","sacred","shame","value"],"id":97472,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I cannot live without you. For to attempt to do so would be to rob both of us of each other, and that is thievery of the greatest sort.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["absence","diminish","diminished","family","friend","friendships","live","loss","love","marriage","partner","relationships","rob","robbery","spouse","thievery","without"],"id":163050,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The worst thing that I can do is humanize God. The second worst thing that I can do is deify myself. And the best thing that I can do is to avoid both.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["avoid","avoidance","bible","christian","christianity","deify","diminish","elevate","god","humanize","idol","idolize","worst"],"id":300338,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It wasn’t until I slowed the car and rolled down the windows that I realized I spend most of my days driving ‘through’ life without driving ‘in’ life. So, I’ve decided to walk because the pace is slower and the windows are always down.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["appreciate","appreciation","avoidance","avoiding","busy","busyness","car","cherish","diminish","diminished","diminishment","drive","driving","ignorance","ignore","life","living","missing","rush","slow","slowly","value"],"id":369450,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Time may be defined as ' dimension governed by activity.' Dimension diminishes with inactivity so does the value of time.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["activity","define-yourself","dimensions","diminish","experience","humorous","inactivity","inspirational","meaning-of-life","time-management","time","value-of-life","value"],"id":382414,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good.'The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.","author":"Bill Willingham","tags":["diminish","help","plan","purify","the-greater-good"],"id":383263,"author_id":"Bill+Willingham"},{"text":"If safety is my goal, living life is not.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","diminish","diminished","existence","existing","goal","life","living","minimize","rob","safe","safety","spoil","steal"],"id":399854,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["belittle","cut","daughter","degrade","depreciate","devalue","diminish","family","father","home","hurt","lower","mirror","name-calling","pain","reduce","reflection","slash","words"],"id":420987,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"To describe happiness is to diminish it.","author":"Stendhal","tags":["describe","diminish "],"id":464710,"author_id":"Stendhal"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}