{"quotes":[{"text":"As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your efforts.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["assistance","big-dreams","compel","dream-big","dreams","efforts","food-for-thought","help","ideal","israelmore-ayivor","people","sponsor","sponsorship"],"id":11700,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["compatibility","diamond","difference","finding-love","flaw","friends","friendship","friendships","gold","ideal","jewel","jewels","loophole","loopholes","love","love-life","oneness","peculiarities","peculiarity","perfect","perfect-match","real-friends","rhyme","satisfaction","silver","soulmate","together","true-friends","true-love","two"],"id":23975,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"In the middle of all the world's incessant noise, her message was music, and music was a thing that I'd mostly lived my life without. In the ten years since I'd last seen Miranda she'd come to somehow stand in for all the things I didn't have in life that were thought to make us human, all the absent music and touch and sympathy; in my mind she lived a separate life apart from her real one, and there she grew more pure and perfect with each passing day . . . In my mind Miranda had become a miracle.","author":"Dexter Palmer","tags":["dexter-palmer","fantasy","ideal","idealized","put-on-a-pedestal","symbol","the-dream-of-perpetual-motion"],"id":29643,"author_id":"Dexter+Palmer"},{"text":"If anthropological data suggests something short of the ideal, that is not because nothing is universal, but because two universals are in conflict: universal moral knowledge and universal desire to evade it. The first one we owe to our creation. The second we owe to our fall.","author":"J. Budziszewski","tags":["anthropology","ideal","moral-knowledge","moral-law","morals","natural-law","universal"],"id":34090,"author_id":"J.+Budziszewski"},{"text":"Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["de-profundis","god","ideal","oscar-wilde","prophecy","religion"],"id":39098,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"That's my ideal day, time with my boys.","author":"Kenny G","tags":["time","day","ideal "],"id":49149,"author_id":"Kenny+G"},{"text":"As far as it’s ideal that you get helped by people, it doesn't mean they are compelled to make your dreams come true without your own efforts.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["as-far-as","big-dreams","compel","compelled","dream-big","dreams","effort","efforts","food-for-thought","ideal","ideally","israelmore-ayivor","people","true"],"id":51821,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.","author":"Élisabeth Badinter","tags":["ideal","motherhood"],"id":59908,"author_id":"%C3%89lisabeth+Badinter"},{"text":"We are all looking for perfection in our lives, but the truth is, there is no perfect. There’s just better and worse. And for what we are in this world, not being perfect is the perfect thing.","author":"Hamid Saleh","tags":["ideal","life","life","motivational","perfection","sad"],"id":62671,"author_id":"Hamid+Saleh"},{"text":"Yes, but I say that Nature is our enemy, that we must always fight against Nature, for she is continually bringing us back to an animal state. You may be sure that God has not put anything on this earth that is clean, pretty, elegant or accessory to our ideal; the human brain has done it.","author":"Guy de Maupassant","tags":["animal","creation","enemy","god","human","human-brain","ideal","nature"],"id":72921,"author_id":"Guy+de+Maupassant"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}