{"quotes":[{"text":"A joyful life, life of contentment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["best-life","chrisitian-life","christian","contentment-and-attitude","happiness-life","happyquotes","joyful","joyful-thankful","life-and-living","life","living-your-best-life","thankful"],"id":1320,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"In the midst of life’s ups and down, beginnings and endings, let us live our life, let us be joyful, let us be happy.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["beginning","education","ending","happiness","happy","hope","inspirational","intelligence","joyful","knowledge","life","love","philosophy","truth","wisdom"],"id":2356,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"There is always a storm before a calm.There is always a darkness before daylight. There is always turbulence before quietness.There is always sacrifices before a great victory.There is always awaiting before a breakthrough.There is always prayer before an answer.There is always pain before joy.There is always failure before success.There is always pregnancy before the birth of new born baby.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["baby","failure","failure-success","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational","joyful","joyful-living-living","joyful-living","joyful-thankful","light","pain","positive-attitude","positive-mindset","positive-motivation","positive-thought","positive-thoughts","positiveness","pregnancy","pregnant-woman","success","success-in-life","successful-living","successful-mind","there-is-always-hope","there-is-always-joy","there-is-always-love","there-is-beauty-in-everything"],"id":5624,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If I can draw the slightest smile across a single face obliterated by pain, in that act I will have begun to understand the power of an ordinary human being to perform the seemingly impossible in the life of another human being. And how can that experience do anything less than drive me to try and make the world smile.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["alter","altering","change","changing","depressed","depression","encourage","encouraging","forlorn","happiness","happy","human","human-being","impossible","joy","joyful","lift","possible","raise","sad","sadness","smile","smiling","transform","transformation","uplift","world"],"id":12608,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A man worth being with is one…That never lies to youIs kind to people that have hurt himA person that respects another’s lifeThat has manners and shows people respectThat goes out of his way to help peopleThat feels every person, no matter how difficult, deserves compassionWho believes you are the most beautiful person he has ever metWho brags about your accomplishments with prideWho talks to you about anything and everything because no bad news will make him love you lessThat is a peacemakerThat will see you through illnessWho keeps his promisesWho doesn’t blame others, but finds the good in them That raises you up and motivates you to reach for the starsThat doesn’t need fame, money or anything materialistic to be happyThat is gentle and patient with childrenWho won’t let you lie to yourself; he tells you what you need to hear, in order to help you growWho lives what he says he believes inWho doesn’t hold a grudge or hold onto the past Who doesn’t ask his family members to deliberately hurt people that have hurt himWho will run with your dreamsThat makes you laugh at the world and yourselfWho forgives and is quick to apologizeWho doesn’t betray you by having inappropriate conversations with other womenWho doesn’t react when he is angry, decides when he is sad or keep promises he doesn’t plan to keepWho takes his children’s spiritual life very seriously and teaches by exampleWho never seeks revenge or would ever put another person downWho communicates to solve problemsWho doesn’t play games or passive aggressively ignores people to hurt themWho is real and doesn’t pretend to be something he is notWho has the power to free you from yourself through his positive outlookWho has a deep respect for women and treats them like a daughter of GodWho doesn’t have an ego or believes he is better than anyoneWho is labeled constantly by people as the nicest person they have ever metWho works hard to provide for the familyWho doesn’t feel the need to drink alcohol to have a good time, smoke or do drugsWho doesn't have to hang out a bar with his friends, but would rather spend his time with his familyWho is morally free from sinWho sees your potential to be greatWho doesn't think a woman's place has to be in the home; he supports your life mission, where ever that takes youWho is a gentlemanWho is honest and lives with integrityWho never discusses your private business with anyoneWho will protect his familyWho forgives, forgets, repairs and restoresWhen you find a man that possesses these traits then all the little things you don’t have in common don’t matter. This is the type of man worth being grateful for.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["be-selective","best-choice","best-friend","blessed","christ-like","dating","father","freedom","friendship","god-s-plan","grateful","gratitude","happiness","honorable-man","husband","jealous-women","jim-alder","joy","joyful","king-of-the-kingdom","life-partner","life-partners","lucky-girl","lucky-me","marriage","mate","my-husband","partner","positive-outlook","qualities","revelations","righteous-man","selection","spiritual-man","staying-positive","tests","the-best","the-man","winning"],"id":13851,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Our joyful moments give us what we need, and then remembering them resupplies us once again.","author":"Denesia Christine Huttula","tags":["appreciation","joy","joyful","memory"],"id":14116,"author_id":"Denesia+Christine+Huttula"},{"text":"I will forget what you said, but I will never forget how lively, joyful and grateful you made me feel.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish","debasish-mridha","forget-what-you-said","grateful","joyful","lively","mridha","philosophy"],"id":15821,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Let your life be joyful, mystical, everlasting blossoms of poetic ecstasy.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","joyful","let-your-life-be-joyful","philosophy","poetic-ecstasy","quotes"],"id":15930,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ the beauty of a single sycamore. \tYou are Xerxes in Persia. Your army spreads on a vast and arid peneplain…you call to you all your sad captains, and give the order to halt. You have seen the tree with the lights in it, haven’t you? You must have. Xerxes buffeted on a plain, ambition drained in a puff. Your men are bewildered…there is nothing to catch the eye in this flatness, nothing but a hollow, hammering sky, a waste of sedge in the lee of windblown rocks, a meager ribbon of scrub willow tracing a slumbering watercourse…and that sycamore. You saw it; you will stand rapt and mute, exalted, remembering or not remembering over a period of days to shade your head with your robe. \t“He had its form wrought upon a medal of gold to help him remember it the rest of his life.” We all ought to have a goldsmith following us around. But it goes without saying, doesn’t it, Xerxes, that no gold medal worn around your neck will bring back the glad hour, keep those lights kindled so long as you live, forever present? Pascal saw it; he grabbed pen and paper and scrawled the one word, and wore it sewn in his shirt the rest of his life. I don’t know what Pascal saw. I saw a cedar. Xerxes saw a sycamore.","author":"Annie Dillard","tags":["amen","beauty","belief","consciousness","creation","curiosity","disbelief","energy","enoughness","epiphany","exploration","exultant","faith","fate","fearless","fire","free","freedom","gaps","god","grace","growth","hallelujah","humility","illumination","intricacy","joy","joyful","joyfulness","life-force","light","living-in-the-present-moment","mindfulness","multiplicity","mystery","nature","philosopher-s-stone","philosophy","poem","poet","poetry","power","praise","prayer","prayers","praying","religion","religious-diversity","science","seeing","seeking","soul","spirit","stalking-the-gaps","the-tree-with-the-lights-in-it","tolerance","walking","watching","wonder"],"id":16223,"author_id":"Annie+Dillard"},{"text":"Love is happiness of the spirit.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["beautiful-life","christian","faith","happiness","hope","inspirational","joyful","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","love","love-one-another","married-life","positive-thought","roamcne","spirit","spiritual-wisdom","thankful-heart"],"id":23864,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":189,"pages":19,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}