{"quotes":[{"text":"People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["death","effort","fragile","life","regrets","sincerity"],"id":3436,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Three children lay on the rocks at the water's edge.A dark-haired girl, two boys, slightly older.This image is caught forever in my memory, like some fragile creature preserved in amber.","author":"Juliet Marillier","tags":["amber","childhood","fragile","memories","nostalgia","preserved","quote","quotes"],"id":41999,"author_id":"Juliet+Marillier"},{"text":"There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.","author":"Peter S. Beagle","tags":["dead","dear","fragile","happy-endings","jonathan-rebeck","joys-of-the-dead","laura-durand","living","michael-morgan","nothing-ends","righteous","self-centered","unworthy","worthy"],"id":48701,"author_id":"Peter+S.+Beagle"},{"text":"Be humble and kind. Kindness has power in it. Look at Mother Teresa, the truest example of kindness. She was humble, kind, and fragile yet she was also a symbol of power. I have never heard of a woman more powerful than her. When we hear name, we must bow our heads with deep respect.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha-m-d","deep-respect","fragile","humble","inspirational","kindness","mother-teresa","mridha","philosophy","quotes","symbol-of-power"],"id":55185,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.","author":"Paul Harding","tags":["angels","fragile","mercy","paul-harding","tinkers"],"id":67103,"author_id":"Paul+Harding"},{"text":"At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potential in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch into my arms, my fingers, until muscles twitch and thought is translated into motion; mechanical levers are pressed; electrons are rearranged; marks are made on paper.At another time, in another place, light strikes the marks, reflects into a pair of high-precision optical instruments sculpted by nature after billions of years of random mutations; upside-down images are formed against two screens made up of millions of light-sensitive cells, which translate light into electrical pulses that go up the optic nerves, cross the chiasm, down the optic tracts, and into the visual cortex, where the pulses are reassembled into letters, punctuation marks, words, sentences, vehicles, tenors, thoughts.The entire system seems fragile, preposterous, science fictional.","author":"Ken Liu","tags":["flow","fragile","neurons","patterns","science-fiction","system","thoughts","translation"],"id":73093,"author_id":"Ken+Liu"},{"text":"Let all the green leaves be mineas long as the trees define shades created by their limbsfor the soil made with victimsof atrocity's vileness to redeem the fragileness.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["atrocity","created","dark","define","fragile","fragile-things","fragileness","green","leaves","limbs","made","redeem","rhyming","rhyming-verse","shade","shades","soil","tree","trees","victim","victims","vile","vileness"],"id":80549,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["ability","art","artist","book","books","change","creative","creativity","each-other","fiction","fragile","fragility","genre","inspiration","inspirational","joy","joy-of-reading","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","letter","letters","life","literature","lives","non-fiction","poem","poet","poetry","power","quote","read","reader","reading","transcend","transform","word","words","write","writer","writing"],"id":80946,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.","author":"Germaine Greer","tags":["sacrifice","measure","fragile "],"id":81602,"author_id":"Germaine+Greer"},{"text":"Glass \u0026 peace alike betray proof of fragility under repeated blows.","author":"David Mitchell","tags":["fragile","pacifism","peace","provocative-inspirational"],"id":87925,"author_id":"David+Mitchell"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":63,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}