{"quotes":[{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist, that he does not revenge an injury; and it is equally as good in a political sense, for there is no end to retaliation; each retaliates on the other, and calls it justice: but to love in proportion to the injury, if it could be done, would be to offer a premium for a crime. Besides, the word enemies is too vague and general to be used in a moral maxim, which ought always to be clear and defined, like a proverb. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon us, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we put the best construction upon a thing that it will bear. But even this erroneous motive in him makes no motive for love on the other part; and to say that we can love voluntarily, and without a motive, is morally and physically impossible.Morality is injured by prescribing to it duties that, in the first place, are impossible to be performed, and if they could be would be productive of evil; or, as before said, be premiums for crime. The maxim of doing as we would be done unto does not include this strange doctrine of loving enemies; for no man expects to be loved himself for his crime or for his enmity.Those who preach this doctrine of loving their enemies, are in general the greatest persecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches. For my own part, I disown the doctrine, and consider it as a feigned or fabulous morality; yet the man does not exist that can say I have persecuted him, or any man, or any set of men, either in the American Revolution, or in the French Revolution; or that I have, in any case, returned evil for evil.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["american-revolution","crime","dogma","enemies","feigned-morality","french-revolution","hypocrisy","injury","intention","justice","love","love-thy-enemy","loving","maxim","meaning","morality","motive","persecution","preach","premius","proverb","revenge","vague"],"id":4846,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"One of my pa...Friends... Isn't doing very well.'...Is your friend dying?'...Yes honey, he is.'That's sad.","author":"Justin Madson","tags":["best-friend","child","daughter","dying","friend","friendship","grief","hospice","illness","injury","man","mother","patient","woman"],"id":24335,"author_id":"Justin+Madson"},{"text":"Paddy Eagan, stay away from falling signs for a bit and you'll be as right as rain come the weekend.","author":"Elizabeth C. Bunce","tags":["funny","injury","signs","weekend"],"id":29020,"author_id":"Elizabeth+C.+Bunce"},{"text":"Never do an enemy a small injury.","author":"Niccolò Machiavelli","tags":["caution","damage","enemy","injury","revenge","vengeance"],"id":37294,"author_id":"Niccol%C3%B2+Machiavelli"},{"text":"Life is a game where fair players are winners! But as for the 'injury causers', 'red-card' sees their end off!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-fair","be-kind","don-t-harm-your-friend","fair","fair-play","food-for-thought","game","harm","injury","israelmore-ayivor","life","life-is-a-game","play","player","players","red-card","win","winner","yellow-card"],"id":41129,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Everything is temporary, almost like a passing fase, some of laughter Some of pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before, Some would say I'm selfish, To hold a little sadness in my eyes, But they don't feel the sorrow When I can't do, all that helps me feel alive. I can express my emotions, but I can't run wild and free, My mind and soul would handle it but hell upon my hip, ankle and knees, This disorder came about,as a friendship said its last goodbyes, Soooo this is what I got given for all the years I stood by? I finally stand still to question it, life it is in fact? What the fuck is the purpose of it all if you get stabbed in the back? And after the anger fills the air, the regret takes it places, I never wanted to be that girl, Horrid, sad and faded... So I took with a grain of salt, my new found reality, I am not of my pain,the disability doesnt define me. I find away to adjust, also with the absence of my friend,I trust the choices I make, allow my heart to mend. I pick up the piecesI retrain my leg, I find where I left off And I start all over again, You see what happens... When a warrior gets tested; They grow from the ashes Powerful and invested. So I thank all this heartache,As I put it to a rest, I move forward with my life And I'll build a damn good nest.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["complex-regional-pain-syndrome","disability","disabled","expression","forgive","freedom","freedom-of-speech","heartache","injury","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","let-go","poem","poem-of-the-day","poetry","of-the-day","raw","saying-goodbye"],"id":44202,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["bruise","grief","heartache","hurt","injury","lick-your-wounds","richelle","richelle-goodrich","sting","wounds"],"id":48444,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.","author":"David Wong","tags":["healing","injury"],"id":67347,"author_id":"David+Wong"},{"text":"Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["defeat","disturbance","disturbing","emotional","emotions","fail","failure","human","humans","injuries","injury","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","overestimate","overestimating","overestimation","philosophy","respect","respectable","respected","respectful","respecting","respecting-others","respecting-yourself","success","successful","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":72848,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}