{"quotes":[{"text":"He tried to measure his day by tallying the hours on his wrist.I wiped it off and called him a prisoner.He placed the hours on a scalewith hours from former days to compare.I took a hammer and broke it all.He bent down and picked up the shards of minutes firstthen swept the seconds.I told him he’d missed a spot;there were some sparkling specks left.'What are they?' he asked.'Those are moments,' I said.'What are they made of?' he asked.They are times, I thought, when you win a raceor win a heart.They are times when you give birth or lay something, someone to rest.When you wake up in the morning with a smile because anything is possible.When someone compliments the thing you hate most about yourself.Times when you are embarrassed.Times when you are hurtful.Times when you relish in a hearty meal.Times when you service others and are content with a well-spent day.'What are they made of?' he asked again.'They are made up of times when we are fully present.'I picked up one of the specks with the tipof my finger.'Do you remember this?' I asked.'Of course,' he said, 'I was whistling in the kitchen that morning.''Why?' I asked.'Because of the knowledge that I was loved.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["birth","broke","compare","compliment","content","cute","day","embarrass","former","hammer","heart","hours","hurtful","inspiration","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lesson","love","love-poem","loving","meal","measure","minutes","moments","morning","place","possible","present","prisoner","prose","quote","race","scale","seconds","service","speck","spot","tally","times","whistle","win","wipe","wisdom","wrist"],"id":81048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Never bet anything on men’s stupidity and on women’s virginity; the former believe they aren’t, while the latter believe they might be.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["believe","former","latter","men","stupidity","virginity","women"],"id":83722,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"No need to look to see if your former home has vanished yet into the humdrum gray behind you; you'll be able to feel it, the sudden eclipse of the tractor beam the house puts out. Of its forcefield of sadness.","author":"Garth Risk Hallberg","tags":["boring","eclipse","forcefield","former","gray","home","humdrum","sadness"],"id":169035,"author_id":"Garth+Risk+Hallberg"},{"text":". . . There are two types of fighters, the former strike all over the place hoping one would land, the latter, assured of their prowess and capabilities, hit once and destroy the opponent's desire to continue the fight.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["assured","attitude","boxing","capabilities","close-quarters","combat","continue","defeated","desire","desires","destroy","expert","fighter","former","hit","kenpo","latter","martial-arts","motobu","okinawa","once","precision","prowess","punching","shorinjiryu","soke","strike","will","willingness"],"id":170903,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"If one Godfather offers you an opportunity and another Godfather offers you an advantage, go with the former.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["advantage","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","business-deal","chances","deal","decision-making","decisions","former","god","godfather","inspirational","later","motivational","opportunities","opportunity","philosophy","risk","wisdom"],"id":203599,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","envious","envy","fail","failure","former","funny","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","joke","jokes","satire","shadow-of-her-former-self","shadow-of-his-former-self","shadow-of-my-former-self","shadow-of-one-s-former-self","success","successful","used-to-be"],"id":329046,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Death has only one hand glove... So it takes away the body, but leaves behind the impacts. Difference makers live twice; in body and in impacts... The former is temporal but the later lasts long!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["body","dead","death","die","difference","do-something","food-for-thought","former","impact-a-soul","impacts","influence","israelmore-ayivor","legacy","make-a-difference","make-an-impact","soul","spirit","success","successful","temporal","win-a-soul-for-god"],"id":453786,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}