{"quotes":[{"text":"I honestly wish I could believe that things will end perfectly with one big bright happy ending. But these last few days have taught me that life isn't made up of shiny moments. Life is hard; it's gritty. One day you are filled with joy and the next, you are crawling through the muddy trenches with no inkling of when you might be able to climb your way back up again. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE).","author":"Rebecca Gober","tags":["exposing-ele","happy-ending","hard-life","hurt","life","life-and-living","life-changing","life-is-hard","shiny","trenches","willow-mosby"],"id":23351,"author_id":"Rebecca+Gober"},{"text":"Your past history is NOT an excuse.","author":"Miya Yamanouchi","tags":["adversity","challenge","courage","empowering","hard-life","inspirational","life","miya-yamanouchi","move-forward","no-excuses","past","powerful","strength","strong","struggle"],"id":67575,"author_id":"Miya+Yamanouchi"},{"text":"I feel so blessed to be alive and so blessed to have to have a father that loves me no matter how much wrong I do in this world.","author":"Jonathan Anthony Burkett","tags":["2015","belief","blessed","faith-in-god","faith","forgiveness","hard-life","jonathan-burkett","love","story-of-my-life"],"id":94090,"author_id":"Jonathan+Anthony+Burkett"},{"text":"It's a hard life if you don't weaken.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["being-strong","hard-life","hardships","life","life-lessons","steadfastness","unhappiness"],"id":160543,"author_id":"Stephen+King"},{"text":"Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["goodness","hard-life","hard-lives","ildan-words-of-wisdom","losing","losing-wealth","murat-ildan","tragedies","turkish-literature","turkish-writers","wealth"],"id":184705,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"The harder life is for a man when he is young, the easier it will be in the future.","author":"Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn","tags":["1968","aphorism","hard-life"],"id":209756,"author_id":"Aleksandr+Solzhenitsyn"},{"text":"The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can’t live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin’ wide in the turns.","author":"Daniel Woodrell","tags":["aging","grim","hard-boiled","hard-life","hillbilly-noir","life-sucks-then-you-die","louisiana-cajun-proles","swamp-noir"],"id":263109,"author_id":"Daniel+Woodrell"},{"text":"However hard life is, deep in our hearts we know that it is worth to continue till the end!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["continue","deep-in-my-heart","end","hard-life","heart","hearts","life","life","life","life-sayings"],"id":309982,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Reality worked its way into my dreams where it wasn’t welcome.","author":"Emilyann Girdner","tags":["dreaming","dreams","dreams","emilyann-girdner","escape","escape-from-reality","escapism","fantasy-","fantasy-","hard-life","reality","reality-and-dreaming","reality-dreams","reality-of-life","reality","reality","sad-dream","sadness","speculative-fiction","young-adult-fantasy-book"],"id":348961,"author_id":"Emilyann+Girdner"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":9,"pages":1}}