{"quotes":[{"text":"The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.","author":"Tim Fargo","tags":["appreciation","apprehension","awareness","comprehension","consciousness","desire","desires","fear","fears","grasp","knowledge","perception","perceptions","reality","realization","recognition","understanding"],"id":41863,"author_id":"Tim+Fargo"},{"text":"Tell me again about the girl whose handshave no color. Whose hands are completelywhite. This time make them damned, oruntouched, or have her open a red umbrellaor point at some maple leaves and damnednear cry. Those hands. As freakish goes,I wish I had a tail. Maybe then you’d knowhow much I like you. It shakes me through,damn through. It shakes me. When she carriesa peacock feather. When she touches her neckor thighs. You’re a person. It’s not so bad.You have hands. You are a person with handsto hold things. Things you like. Tremendousthings. Tell me what you will hold today. Iknow there is room for everything. There is noneed to be ceremonious. Tell what gets let go.","author":"Rebecca Wadlinger","tags":["beautiful","beauty","everybody-has-hands-almost","girl","grasp","hands","hold","love","lust","red","white"],"id":55670,"author_id":"Rebecca+Wadlinger"},{"text":"To think that we grasp the fullness of life is to say that by holding a mere drop of water in our hands we are able to understand the immensity of the ocean.","author":"Craig D. 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It was a remarkably versatile commodity; it could be traded, or help serve an end, or produce aprofit.","author":"Mark Allen Smith","tags":["commodity","damage","end","fist","grasp","help","produce","profit","remarkable","serve","trade","truth","versatile","weapon","wield"],"id":144677,"author_id":"Mark+Allen+Smith"},{"text":"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["agony","dark","feel","grasp","grief","heal","melancholy","only","pain","relief","relief-from-pain","scar","seal","sealed","unhealed","wound","wounded"],"id":211344,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"Listen.Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall?Look.Do you sensethat you can’t see love?Touch.Do you graspthat you can’t catch poems?Try.Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud.These material senses won’t get you far untilyou feelthe velvet glove caress your soul.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["caress","catch","cloud","feel","glass","glove","grasp","hear","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","listen","look","love","love-poem","loved","lover","loves","loving","material","materialism","poem","poems","poetry","quote","see","sense","senses","smell","snowfall","soul","taste","touch","try"],"id":216859,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"In sandy soil, when deep you delve, you reach the springs below; The more you learn, the freer streams of wisdom flow.","author":"Thiruvalluvar","tags":["education","experience","grasp","knowledge","learn","master","proficient","skill","study","teacher","understanding","wisdom"],"id":218756,"author_id":"Thiruvalluvar"},{"text":"If only you could fully grasp how valuable, how limited and how unique every moment of your life is, you would never stand as still as a statue even a single moment because action is real living!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["action","action","grasp","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","life","life-lessons","limited","limited-time","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","moments","moments-of-life","moments","time","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers","unique","uniqueness","valuable"],"id":229377,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}