{"quotes":[{"text":"Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appearance","appearances","as-happy-as-a-clam","beaming","beatific","blissful","blithe","buoyant","carefree","cheerful","cheery","chirpy","content","contented","deceive","deception","delighted","ecstatic","elated","euphoric","exhilarated","exultant","first-impression","first-impressions","funny","gleeful","gratified","grinning","happiness","happy","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","impression","impressions","in-a-good-mood","in-good-spirits","in-seventh-heaven","jocular","jocund","joke","jokes","jolly","jovial","joy","joyful","joyous","jubilant","jumping-for-joy","lighthearted","looks","merry","on-a-high","on-cloud-nine","on-top-of-the-world","over-the-moon","overjoyed","pleased","pretend","pretense","radiant","rapturous","satire","satisfied","smiling","sunny","thrilled","tickled-pink","unhappiness","unhappy","untroubled","walking-on-air"],"id":120243,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"To Cono’s mind the three assailants were all three nearly motionless even as they skittered and dodged, firing, maneuvering for a kill. Cono felt exhilaration—the ecstatic awareness that his strange brain and body had ordained him for just such moments, by allowing him to enter a space outside of time.","author":"Victor Robert Lee","tags":["cono","ecstatic","moments","outside-of-time"],"id":143471,"author_id":"Victor+Robert+Lee"},{"text":"Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["catch","cries","ecstasy","ecstatic","envious","envy","exception","experience","eyes","fall","fall-in-love","grateful","in-love","intoxicate","intoxication","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love-poems","love","lover","loving","meaning","meet","met","moment","new","odd","oddity","pleasure","sighs","slip","wish","witness"],"id":157671,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Ours was such a delicious risk.My being abruptly and altogetherEcstatic and be-stilled.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["abruptly","altogether","being","delicious","ecstatic","our","risk","such"],"id":204150,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"text":"Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordless howl burst from his throat. His dripping ears were flat to his skull, fire crackled in his brown eyes, his huge sword blurred in a whirring figure eight before him, and the brigand running at him gawked in sudden panic. The raider's feet skidded in mud as he tried to brake, but it was far too late. He was face-to-face with the worst nightmare of any Norfressan, a Horse Stealer hradani in the grip of the Rage, and a thunderbolt of steel split him from crown to navel.","author":"David Weber","tags":["battle","brigand","ecstasy","ecstatic","fear","fight","fire","gawk","heat","howl","hradani","nightmare","panic","poison","skirmish","steel","sword","terror","thief"],"id":223856,"author_id":"David+Weber"},{"text":"Those eyes so ecstatic with the gleam of new life, the wide laugh that no doubt uses up so much of the breath contained in those tiny lungs.","author":"Saim Cheeda","tags":["baby","birth","cute","ecstatic","gleam","laugh","newborn","tiny","wonderful"],"id":239704,"author_id":"Saim+Cheeda"},{"text":"Ecstatic technology isn't limited to silicon chips and display screens. As John Lilly's early research established, it's the knowledge of how to tweak the knobs and levers in our brain. When we get it right, it produces those invaluable sensations of selflessness, timelessness, effortlessness, and richness.","author":"Steven Kotler","tags":["ecstatic","ecstatic-journeying","effortlessness","john-lilly","richness","selflessness","technology","timelessness"],"id":362405,"author_id":"Steven+Kotler"},{"text":"Always remember the primary purpose of your life is living in tune with your energy pattern, find the true expression for the energy and go with the flow!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["ecstatic","energy-of-the-universe","journey-of-life","life-lessons","now","purpose-of-life"],"id":387344,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["agony","anguish","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","as-happy-as-a-clam","beaming","beatific","bliss","blissful","blissfulness","blithe","blue","broken-hearted","buoyant","carefree","chagrin","cheerful","cheerfulness","cheerless","cheery","chirpy","content","contented","contentment","dejected","dejection","delight","delighted","depressed","depression","desolation","despair","despairing","despondency","despondent","disconsolate","dispirited","distress","doleful","dolefulness","down","down-at-the-mouth","down-in-the-dumps","down-in-the-mouth","downcast","downhearted","ecstasy","ecstatic","elated","elation","enjoyment","euphoria","euphoric","exhilarated","exhilaration","exuberance","exultant","face","faces","forlorn","funny","gaiety","glee","gleeful","gloom","gloominess","gloomy","glum","glumness","good-spirits","gratified","grief","grinning","happiness","happy","heartache","heartbroken","hilarious","hole","holes","humor","humorous","humour","hurting","impression","impressions","in-a-good-mood","in-good-spirits","in-seventh-heaven","jocular","jocund","joke","jokes","jollity","jolly","jovial","joviality","joy","joyful","joyfulness","joyless","joyous","jubilant","jubilation","jumping-for-joy","lighthearted","lightheartedness","long-faced","low-spirits","lugubrious","malaise","melancholy","merriment","merry","miserable","misery","morose","mournful","mournfulness","on-a-high","on-cloud-nine","on-top-of-the-world","opinion","opinions","over-the-moon","overjoyed","pain","pit","pits","pleased","pleasure","quotations","quotes","radiant","rapture","rapturous","sad","sadness","satire","satisfaction","satisfied","smiling","sorrow","sorrowful","suffering","sunny","the-blues","thrilled","tickled-pink","torment","transports-of-delight","tribulation","unhappiness","unhappy","untroubled","walking-on-air","well-being","woe","woebegone","woeful","wretchedness"],"id":410691,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}