{"quotes":[{"text":"If you avoid all of life's abrasions you will never be polished enough to shine.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["abrasions","hardships","life","life-lessons","richelle","richelle-goodrich","trials"],"id":986,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Hardships lead to strength of character.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["character","difficulties-of-life","hardships","inspirational"],"id":1756,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["endurance","growing","growth","hardships","learning","life","life-lessons","richelle","richelle-goodrich"],"id":9523,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Hardship makes us to rely solely on God for help.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["god","hardships","help","inspiration"],"id":9647,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["beauty","hardships","life","ordinary-days"],"id":21574,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"Without hardships, how could we know hope?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["despair","hardships","hope","inspiring","pain","self-motivation","suffering"],"id":22030,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"CENTER-OF-THE-UNIVERSE, that was me entering the workplace. And I woke up one day soon after that, struggling at the bottom of a vast ocean. But I needed that. Humbling experiences are part of growing - they help shape us and mold our character. Welcome to life.","author":"Yay Padua-Olmedo","tags":["career","character-development","hardships","lessons-learned-in-life","struggles","workplace"],"id":22121,"author_id":"Yay+Padua-Olmedo"},{"text":"To storm, a mind, it must be balanced,by what can't be it must be challenged...","author":"Will Advise","tags":["balance","brainstorm","challenges","hardships","impossibilities","impossible","mind","minimal","minimalism","poem","poetry","storm","struggle","weather"],"id":30121,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.","author":"Curtis Tyrone Jones","tags":["broken-heart","brokenness","catastrophe","change","change-of-events","circumstances","despair","devastation","gasping","guts","hard-to-breath","hardships","pain","unexpected-changes","unexpected-turns","universe"],"id":30951,"author_id":"Curtis+Tyrone+Jones"},{"text":"A friend is someone who will always be there for you, in good and hard times.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["friend","friends","friends-to-lovers","friendship","friendship","friendship-tolerance","friendship-true-and-loyal","friendships","good-times","hard-times","hardships"],"id":39429,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":122,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}