{"quotes":[{"text":"I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","awakening","becoming","changes","changing","day","ego","egoism","egotism","evolving","existence","gracious","growing","immaterial","life","lifestyle","material","materialistic","matter","perspective","philosophy","poet","real","seasons","spirituality","stages","stuff","superficial","things","time","transform","transformations","transforming"],"id":90687,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","balance","corruption","ego","egotism","females","flaunt","girls","gossip","gossiping","head","hold-head","humble","humility","ignorant","immaterial","integrity","ladies","lady","materialism","no-merit","no-substance","no-value","pollution","proud","quality","shallow","shallowness","sins","superficial","superficiality","vain","valueless","vanity","virtue","woman","women","women-rights","women-strengths"],"id":149386,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( 'Girl in blue' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["abide","blue","color","details","disappear","dungeon","encounter","engraved","etrenity","flashes","fleeting","forgetfulness","furtive","gesture","girl","immaterial","indelible","innocent","look","marked","memory","mind","moment","past","salient","significant","survive","twinkle","unforeseen"],"id":196865,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"COMING FORTH INTO THE LIGHTI was born the dayI thought:What is?What was?AndWhat if?I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.I really came into beingThe day I no longer cared aboutWhat the world thought of me,Only on my thoughts forChanging the world.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["alive","aliveness","approval","asking-questions","awake","awaken","awakened","awakening","be","becoming","being","birth","bliss","born","caring","change-the-world","changing-the-world","comfortable-with-yourself","conscious","consciousness","ego","egoism","egoismo","egotism","enlightenment","evolution","evolving","freedom-of-thought","growing","growth","immaterial","life","light","loving-yourself","material","materialism","peace","poem","poetry","reborn","reflection","reflections-on-life","self-awareness","self-love","self-reflection","state-of-being","superficial","superficial-culture","suzy-kassem","think","thinking","thought","thoughts-on-life","to-be","transform","transformation","what-if","what-is","what-was","wisdom","wise","world","world-citizen","world-peace"],"id":377324,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"When relationships lose their pitch through lack of interest and become stale or unbearable through enduring stealthy backbiting, the emotional house of cards is under attack. A painstaking reshuffle, however, may brand a new choice of life and create energy for positive thinking, whereas remaining bogged down in dispiriting situations and staying clogged up with immaterial hassle may only spawn forlorn deadlocks.. ('Mes cliques et mes claques').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["backbiting","bogged-down-in","clogged-up-with","create","deadlock","dispiriting","emotional","enduring","energy","forlorn","hassle","house-of-cards","immaterial","lack-of-interest","lose","mes-cliques-et-mes-claques","painstaking","pitch","positive-thinking","relationships","remain","reshuffle","situations","spawn","stale","stay","stealthy","unbearable","under-attack"],"id":405157,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The people of today would rather stand next to a man with no substance but covered in gold, rather than the man with substance and wisdom of gold. What if God was dressed as a carpenter with dirty nails and beaten boots? Would you recognize your Maker? Would you give him your time? Your vote? A cup of tea or water? Only those with truth in them will recognize truth. And you must learn to recognize all that is untrue to get the truth.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["artificial","boots","carpenter","character","conscience","creator","dirty-nails","divine","facade","fake","god","gold","heart","illusion","image","immaterial","justice","maker","mirage","substance","superfical","superficial","superficiality","true","truth","wisdom","worth"],"id":417541,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}