{"quotes":[{"text":"The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","arrogance","development","disobedience","ego","experience","failures","fortunate","humility","intelligence","knowledge","learning","mistakes","obedience","pain","pride","reaching","rebellion","sentenced","stranded","stubbornness","suffering","taught","teach","teachable","tragedy","unfortunate","unteachable","wisdom"],"id":21194,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.","author":"Jeffrey Eugenides","tags":["fortunate","personality","privilige"],"id":56767,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Eugenides"},{"text":"I'm one of the most fortunate people in the world.","author":"Rose Kennedy","tags":["world","people","fortunate "],"id":75064,"author_id":"Rose+Kennedy"},{"text":"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.","author":"Plutarch","tags":["speak","yourself","fortunate "],"id":109301,"author_id":"Plutarch"},{"text":"People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.","author":"Chris Prentiss","tags":["bad-luck","beliefs","books","chris-prentiss","fortunate","fortune","good-luck","great-fortune","inspiration","inspire","life","passages-malibu","passages-ventura","quotes","trust","trustworthy"],"id":148540,"author_id":"Chris+Prentiss"},{"text":"I look to my family for my support. I'm fortunate to have a big family.","author":"Chris O'Donnell","tags":["support","look","fortunate "],"id":180568,"author_id":"Chris+O%27Donnell"},{"text":"Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.","author":"Rebecca Rupp","tags":["fortunate","promises","world"],"id":186517,"author_id":"Rebecca+Rupp"},{"text":"In India, we have a saying: 'Always look down, never look up,' he said. 'When you are trying to determine where you stand in life, don't look upward at the rich people, the people with everything. Look downward at the people who have nothing, those begging on the street, those living in the slums. There's no end to looking up and feeling badly. And if you try to spit upward it only falls down upon your own face. Only by looking down do you understand your dharma.","author":"Alison Singh Gee","tags":["dharma","fortunate","fortune","gratefulness","money"],"id":187890,"author_id":"Alison+Singh+Gee"},{"text":"The world is a show and the show is a performance of the wealthy, the beautiful and the fortunate. The invulnerable, the matchless and the exclusive live a life like dazzling fish in a scintillating seascape behind glass. Everybody may admire them, but nobody can touch them. ( “Keeping up with the Joneses” ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["admire","beautiful","dazzling","exclusive","fish","fortunate","glass","invulnerable","keeping-up-with-the-joneses","life","live","matchless","performance","scintillating","seascape","show","touch","wealthy","world"],"id":221171,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"It's all a series of serendipities with no beginnings and no ends. Such infinitesimal possibilities Through which love transcends.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["circles-within-circles","cycles","eternal","eternity","events","fortuitous","fortuitousness","fortuity","fortunate","immortality","lifem-infinitesimal","moments","mysterious","mystery","mystical","occasion","physical","serendipitous","serendipity","soul","spiritual","tao","trabsitions","turns","universe"],"id":232694,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}