{"quotes":[{"text":"Happiness is a habit,it’s more than fleeting,more than a disintegrating lozenge.","author":"Brian D'Ambrosio","tags":["happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-in-life","happiness-life","happiness"],"id":2406,"author_id":"Brian+D%27Ambrosio"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.","author":"Elizabeth Grace Saunders","tags":["happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-life","inspiration","life-balance","self-improvement","self-worth","time-management"],"id":52128,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Grace+Saunders"},{"text":"The satisfaction? The joy? That comes from solving problems and making things.","author":"Hank Green","tags":["creativity","creativity","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-in-life","happiness-life","joy","joy-of-life","joyful-living","joyful-living","joyful-living","making-things","making-things-happen","meaning-of-life","problem-solving","purpose","satisfaction","solving-problems","success"],"id":54813,"author_id":"Hank+Green"},{"text":"Endeavor to create heaven on earth and turn your heart into the new Jerusalem.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["attitude","attitude-inspiration","attitude-is-everything","attitude","attitude-towards-life","bangambiki","happiness","happiness-advice","happiness-choices","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-in-hard-times","happiness-in-life","happiness-life","happiness-positive-outlook","happiness","happiness","happy","happy-life","happy-positivity","happy-soul","happyquotes","heaven","heaven-and-earth","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-rewards","heavens","new-jerusalem","new-world-rising","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":58534,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["encourage-yourself","encouragement-and-attitude","encouragement","encouraging","encouraging-and-empowering-girls","faith","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-strength","germany-kent","germany-kent","happily-ever-after","happiness","happiness-advice","happiness-choices","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-in-life","happiness-life","happiness-positive-outlook","happiness","happiness","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope-guru","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful-heart","hopeful","hopefulness","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-religious","inspire","life-and-living","life-changing","life-changing-life-lesson","life-changing-moments","life-changing-success","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life-philosophy-inspirational","life","motivate","motivation","motivation","motivational","motivational-enlightenment","motivational-inspirational","motivational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","motivational-speaker","motivational-speaker","success","success-in-business","success-in-life","success","success-self-improvement","success-strategies","successful","successful-living","successful-people","the-hope-guru","true-self-worth","truth","truth-of-life","truth","truth-telling","truthful","truthful-knowledge","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise","wise-sayings","wise-words-inner-strength","youth","youth-ministry","youth-outreach","youthful-optimism"],"id":93390,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"I have absolutely no regrets in life except regrets for the things I didn’t do when I had the chance ~ Donald Pillai.","author":"Donald Pillai","tags":["business-advice","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-in-hard-times","inspiration","inspirational-success-failure","joyful-living","leadership","life-and-living","life-experience","life-lessons","love","peace-of-mind","reliable"],"id":98531,"author_id":"Donald+Pillai"},{"text":"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.......","author":"Moywaywa","tags":["happiness-choices","happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-life","happiness-positive-outlook","success-in-life","success","success-self-improvement"],"id":98789,"author_id":"Moywaywa"},{"text":"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["happiness-fulfillment-desire","starving-artist","suffering","writing","writing-process"],"id":159501,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!","author":"Jennifer O'Neill","tags":["happiness-fulfillment-desire","happiness-life","love","relationship-advice","relationships"],"id":203546,"author_id":"Jennifer+O%27Neill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}