{"quotes":[{"text":"I know you not quite wellYet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spellNow my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beguile","bewitch","break-up","cast","delight","dice","doom","ex","fall","falling","foolish","game-over","heart","in-love","know","lose","love-martyr","love-poem","martyr","martyrdom","masochism","masochist","mind","misery","on-purpose","push","relationship","seduce","seduced","self-imposed","spell","standing","suffer","suffering","surrender","virgin"],"id":1098,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advices","advise","aphorism","aphorisms","counsel","counseling","counselling","counsellor","counsellors","counselor","counselors","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorcees","experience","extended-families","extended-family","families","family","fool","foolish","fools","humor","humour","husband","husbands","learn","learned","lesson","lessons","love","lover","lovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","marriage","marriage-proposal","marriage-proposals","married","marry","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","proposal","proposals","propose","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","useful","usefulness","useless","uselessness","wife","wisdom","wise","wives"],"id":9822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Even if doors are open to the fool, he/she will still be foolish in accessing them.","author":"Bamigboye Olurotimi","tags":["accessing","blessing","change-your-life","choice","doors","favour","fool","foolish","foolishness-access","life","open","open-door","opportunity"],"id":11848,"author_id":"Bamigboye+Olurotimi"},{"text":"Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I’ve looked for but nothing that I need? That’s because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["error","foolish","foolishness","god","men","miscalculate","misjudge","misjudging","misjudgment","needs","praises","praises-of-god","praises-of-men","stupid","stupidity"],"id":11913,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anxiety","bravery","business","career-changes","choices","confidence","dating","education","fear","foolish","future","goals","paranoia","rising-above-it","scenarios","single","staying-positive","taking-chances"],"id":13942,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"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":"Impulsivity is something akin to spontaneously jumping out of an airplane and not realizing that you forgot something until about five seconds before impact.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["airplane","choice","consequences","crash","discretion","fool","foolish","hit","impact","impulsive","parachute","plane","repercussions","skydiving","spontaneous","thoughtless","wisdom","wise"],"id":14952,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"There is a thin line of difference in being courageous and foolish!","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["courageous","foolish","intelligent","leadership","life","smart","wisdom","witty"],"id":20416,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"},{"text":"People have the power to change their perspective. They just get caught up in an endless cycle of foolish things that don’t matter.","author":"Jamie Magee","tags":["cycle","don-t-matter","foolish","insight","perspective","power"],"id":22054,"author_id":"Jamie+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":156,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}