{"quotes":[{"text":"A surrogate activity is an activity that is directed toward an artificial goal that the individual pursues for the sake of the “fulfillment” that he gets from pursuing the goal, not because he needs to attain the goal itself. For instance, there is no practical motive for building enormous muscles, hitting a little ball into a hole or acquiring a complete series of postage stamps. Yet many people in our society devote themselves with passion to bodybuilding, golf or stamp-collecting. Some people are more “other-directed” than others, and therefore will more readily attach importance to a surrogate activity simply because the people around them treat it as important or because society tells them it is important. That is why some people get very serious about essentially trivial activities such as sports, or bridge, or chess, or arcane scholarly pursuits, whereas others who are more clear-sighted never see these things as anything but the surrogate activities that they are, and consequently never attach enough importance to them to satisfy their need for the power process in that way.","author":"Theodore J. Kaczynski","tags":["freedom","hobbies","industrial-society"],"id":3202,"author_id":"Theodore+J.+Kaczynski"},{"text":"The only thing more dangerous then a vampire crazed with blood lust was a vampire crazed with anything else. All the meticulous single-mindedness that went into finding young women who slept with their bedroom window open got channeled into some other interest, with merciless and painstaking efficiency...","author":"Terry Pratchett","tags":["hobbies","obsession","single-mindedness","vampire"],"id":7287,"author_id":"Terry+Pratchett"},{"text":"Reading is the noblest of all the hobbies, that is why people mention it so frequently in their resume even if they don't read much.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","book","book-reading","books","curriculum-vitae","cv","experience","fun","funny","funny","hobbies","hobby","hobby-of-reading","human","humans","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","knowledge","library","library-books","motivation","motivational","motivational","noble","noblest","philosophy","problems","reading","reading-books","resume","solutions","wisdom","wisdom","wit","witty","witty"],"id":11458,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["caring","cheering-section","dreamers","enthusiastic","excited-about-life","experiences","feeling-alive","fun","happy","hobbies","interested","like-minds","planners","positive","relationships-101","same-goals","shares","sidelines","stayingpositiveu-com","talents","tolerating"],"id":23783,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If I know that I can do something that makes me happy, why do I allow myself to get so depressed?","author":"Kara Lee Corthron","tags":["depression","happiness","hobbies"],"id":32861,"author_id":"Kara+Lee+Corthron"},{"text":"There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["enjoy","enjoyment","having-fun","hobbies","passing-time","passion","time","time-flies","time-management","what-you-love"],"id":36656,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"text":"One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.","author":"James MacDonald","tags":["hobbies","leisure","peace-of-mind","sleep"],"id":47857,"author_id":"James+MacDonald"},{"text":"As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["entertainment","hero","heroes","heroism","hobbies","hobby","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","work"],"id":62177,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"I write to find strength.I write to become the person that hides inside me.I write to light the way through the darkness for others.I write to be seen and heard.I write to be near those I love.I write by accident, promptings, purposefully and anywhere there is paper. I write because my heart speaks a different language that someone needs to hear.I write past the embarrassment of exposure.I write because hypocrisy doesn’t need answers, rather it needs questions to heal. I write myself out of nightmares.I write because I am nostalgic, romantic and demand happy endings.I write to remember.I write knowing conversations don’t always take place.I write because speaking can’t be reread.I write to sooth a mind that races.I write because you can play on the page like a child left alone in the sand.I write because my emotions belong to the moon; high tide, low tide.I write knowing I will fall on my words, but no one will say it was for very long.I write because I want to paint the world the way I see love should be.I write to provide a legacy.I write to make sense out of senselessness.I write knowing I will be killed by my own words, stabbed by critics, crucified by both misunderstanding and understanding. I write for the haters, the lovers, the lonely, the brokenhearted and the dreamers.I write because one day someone will tell me that my emotions were not a waste of time. I write because God loves stories.I write because one day I will be gone, but what I believed and felt will live on.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["books","choices","co","craft","desire","hobbies","inspirational-writers","legacy","life-purpose","novels","publishers","romance-writers","stories","why-do-you-write","write","writers","writing","writing-craft","writing-industry"],"id":73628,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Addiction to reading... There are worse things in the world to be Addicted to. I admire your hobby choice it's mine as well.","author":"Christy A. Mair","tags":["addiction","hobbies","reading"],"id":81117,"author_id":"Christy+A.+Mair"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}