{"quotes":[{"text":"As long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).All you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.Somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","death","force","human-beings","humanity","life","lonely","love","misery","nobody","peace","poem","poetry","society","soul","war"],"id":610,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are.","author":"Niall Williams","tags":["books","human-beings","literature","readers","writers","writing"],"id":1786,"author_id":"Niall+Williams"},{"text":"For eventually one gets over reality’s affront to one’s innocence. One grows accustomed to the melancholy fact that we all sell ourselves at one time or another, that whoring is the dirty little secret of our success as human beings.","author":"Paul Russell","tags":["human-beings","innocence","reality","success","whoring"],"id":7087,"author_id":"Paul+Russell"},{"text":"Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.","author":"Abhijit Naskar","tags":["brainy","compassion","compassionate","human-beings","humanism","humanist","humanity","humanity-and-society","inspirational","kindness","life","love-and-kindness","philosophy","truth"],"id":25214,"author_id":"Abhijit+Naskar"},{"text":"We're better off not worrying about ourselves, and to do that, we have to worry about others.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["2","compassion","human-beings","landry","life","others","ourselves","pearl-in-the-mist","thoughtful","v-c-andrews","worrying"],"id":27191,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"Any pain that human beings can create, human beings can transcend.","author":"Sarah Schulman","tags":["conflict","feminism","human-beings","overstating-harm","pain","transcend"],"id":35130,"author_id":"Sarah+Schulman"},{"text":"Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["act","adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","believe","conform","conformity","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","expect","expectation","expectations","feel","feeling","feelings","funny","gnome","gnomes","human","human-being","human-beings","humanity","humans","humor","humorous","humour","insane","insanity","insightful","made-me-think","make-you-think","mankind","maxim","maxims","people","person","philosopher","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","south-africa","south-african","think","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":35272,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The problem with a man is, he is no more a child.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","being-child","child","childhood","children","curiosity","grown-ups","human-beings","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","kids","man","motivation","motivational","motivational","philosophy","problem"],"id":38653,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"If you are a boat and your lake is frozen, what can you do? You will wait for the spring! We are lucky that we are humans, we don’t have to wait for the spring; we can break the ice if necessary, we can use fire to open our way! Nothing can stop the mind if the mind decides to move to his target!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["boat","frozen-lake","goal","human-beings","humans","humans-humanity","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","lake","lakes","lucky","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","mind","mind","mind","target","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":47024,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"If human beings cannot inhabit the earth, where else could they live?","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["earth","environmental-degradation","human-beings","humanity","living","nature","people","philosophy","wise-words"],"id":52025,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":110,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}