{"quotes":[{"text":"One gains by losing and loses by gaining.","author":"Lao Tzu","tags":["dao","daoism","gains","loss","philosophy","tao","taoism"],"id":23473,"author_id":"Lao+Tzu"},{"text":"Remain open-minded, even when you believe yourself to be a king among peasants. You never know what blessings can be gained or crises averted just by listening.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["ity","gain","gains","hear","hearing","leader","leadership","leading","listening","open-mind","open-minded","open-mindedness","openmindedness","others","people","respect","status","time","understand"],"id":56450,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Blessings Are Immeasurable'You can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses with Their minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","bad-luck","blessings","chance","child","curse","cursed","fail","failing","failure","faith","falling","gains","graciousness","gratefulness","health","honor","hope","house","idea","job","life","living","lose","losing","losing-child","losing-hope","losing-someone","loss","losses","lost-everything","love","love-of-your-life","luck","moment","money","opportunity","pains","parent","pride","religion","steal","success","vices","virginity","win"],"id":81998,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","castle","castles","dungeon","dungeons","edifice","edifices","food-for-thought","gain","gainful","gains","good","good-or-bad","heal","impress","impression","israelmore-ayivor","kill","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","manipulate","manipulations","manipulator","manipulators","mislead","misleader","misleaders","oppress","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","oppressors","pain","pain-and-gain","painful","pains","people","personal-development","push","self-improvement","vice","vices","virtue","virtues"],"id":89360,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Every man walks his own path, and every path has its fair share of locked doors. You never know who holds the key to a door you’ll need to open one day, so you best treat people as if they are all keyholders.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["act","actions","awareness","battles","careful","caution","choice","choices","destiny","doors","expertise","gains","hear","humility","importance","important","influence","insignificance","keyholders","keys","listening","locked","manipulation","others","path","people","perspective","persuasion","potential","respect","significance","significant","tolerance","understanding","words"],"id":91402,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.","author":"Sigmund Freud","tags":["future","gains","hope","illusion","inspirational","knowledge","progress","science","understanding"],"id":94953,"author_id":"Sigmund+Freud"},{"text":"On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.","author":"Lawren Leo","tags":["evening-star","gain","gains","loss","losses","magic","magick","star","stars","wish","wishes-fulfilled"],"id":135732,"author_id":"Lawren+Leo"},{"text":"A good leader must have the wisdom to know when a pursuit is no longer worthy of being pursued - a time when the losses of the present must be accepted - and cut - to preserve the gains and providence of the future.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["acceptance","better-yourself","future","gains","leader","leading","loss","losses","preservation","providence","pursuits","self-awareness","self-improvement","wisdom","wise","worthiness"],"id":137319,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.","author":"Shaun Hick","tags":["adversity","cancer","change-your-life","diet","gains","get-it-done","habits","hard-work","hardship","health","inspirational","just-do-it","life","lifechanging","lifestyle","make-a-change","motivation","motivational","move","perspective","success"],"id":228927,"author_id":"Shaun+Hick"},{"text":"[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient's emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["communication","emotions","focus","gains","gondola","gondolier","influence","manipulation","others","people","persuasion","power","relationships","success","words","writing"],"id":281192,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}