{"quotes":[{"text":"A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.","author":"John Lubbock","tags":["advice","exhaustion","work","worry"],"id":20676,"author_id":"John+Lubbock"},{"text":"The antidote to exhaustion may not be rest but wholeheartedness... We are typically exhausted because we are not doing our TRUE work.","author":"Gordon T. Smith","tags":["exhaustion","passion","rest"],"id":22917,"author_id":"Gordon+T.+Smith"},{"text":"From the tattered edges of an exhausted mind, inspiration blooms... Mental filters disintegrate and walls crumble, as the ocean of creativity washes over everything.","author":"Jaeda DeWalt","tags":["creativity","exhaustion","insomnia","inspiration","mind"],"id":27465,"author_id":"Jaeda+DeWalt"},{"text":"Remember what I done for you here today,' he shouted and passed out.","author":"Charlie Higson","tags":["embarrassment","exhaustion","fight"],"id":28237,"author_id":"Charlie+Higson"},{"text":"Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity.","author":"Phillip Gary Smith","tags":["creativity","exercise","exhaustion","running","trails"],"id":34728,"author_id":"Phillip+Gary+Smith"},{"text":"It is not the dream of what you're feeling laziness, if not, the sleep of exhaustion.","author":"Edmondo de Amicis","tags":["dream","exhaustion","feeling","laziness","sleep"],"id":67978,"author_id":"Edmondo+de+Amicis"},{"text":"This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.","author":"Elizabeth Gilbert","tags":["choice","exhaustion","life","women"],"id":70609,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Gilbert"},{"text":"The hardest chore to do, and to do right, is to think. Why do you think the common man would choose labor, partially, as a distraction from his own thoughts? It is because that level of stress, he most absolutely abhors.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["abhor","apologetics","avoidance","brain","chore","cognition","contemplation","distractions","emotional","emotional-work","exhaustion","fear","grinding","hard-labor","hard-work","hate","hustling","illogical","irrational","labor","logical","mental","mental-work","philosophy","physical","physical-labor","physical-work","psychology","rational","stress","task","thinker","thinking","thought","work"],"id":79224,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"What needed to stop was the succession of dates with these relatively impressive, relatively interesting people, when I could tell from the first minute that everyone here was going to end as a runner-up in a long race to nowhere in particular, broken-down, exhausted, no one wearing a medal.","author":"B.J. Novak","tags":["dates","dating","exhaustion","long-race-to-nowhere","no-medal","relatively-impressive","relatively-interesting"],"id":84122,"author_id":"B.J.+Novak"},{"text":"For me, it was a lonely season. Whenever I got home and took off my clothes, I felt as if any second my bones would burst through my skin. Like some unknown force inside me had taken a wrong turn somewhere, and was leading me off in some strange direction to another world.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["exhaustion","loneliness"],"id":113865,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":41,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}