{"quotes":[{"text":"Empowered Women 101: A confident woman doesn't have to talk a man into loving her. He either loves her completely, not enough or not at all. Regardless, she doesn't settle for less than she deserves.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["confident-woman","doesn-t-settle","husbands","in-love","joyous","loved-completely","queens","respected","respectful-husbands","self-respect"],"id":45381,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It is wonderful, this whole business of tickling and kissing God every night.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["enjoy","faith","god","happy","joy","joyous","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kiss","kissing","kojouri","laugh","laughter","merriment","merry","night","religion","spiritual","spiritual-poems","spiritual","spiritualism","spirituality","sufi","sufism","tickle","tickling","wonderful"],"id":53128,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"May the Blessingof Allah keep yoursHeart and HomeHappy and Joyous!!To get Bright Futurewish U Happy New Year !!!","author":"Baset","tags":["allah","blessings","bright","future","happy","heart","joyous","new","quotes","year"],"id":107511,"author_id":"Baset"},{"text":"Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appearance","appearances","as-happy-as-a-clam","beaming","beatific","blissful","blithe","buoyant","carefree","cheerful","cheery","chirpy","content","contented","deceive","deception","delighted","ecstatic","elated","euphoric","exhilarated","exultant","first-impression","first-impressions","funny","gleeful","gratified","grinning","happiness","happy","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","impression","impressions","in-a-good-mood","in-good-spirits","in-seventh-heaven","jocular","jocund","joke","jokes","jolly","jovial","joy","joyful","joyous","jubilant","jumping-for-joy","lighthearted","looks","merry","on-a-high","on-cloud-nine","on-top-of-the-world","over-the-moon","overjoyed","pleased","pretend","pretense","radiant","rapturous","satire","satisfied","smiling","sunny","thrilled","tickled-pink","unhappiness","unhappy","untroubled","walking-on-air"],"id":120243,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Possessions and positions may promote our happiness but cannot create it. Happiness is a state created by self through the realization of how the self is important to the creator.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["create","creator","glad","god","happiness","i-am-happy","israelmore-ayivor","joy","joyous","maker","posess","position","positions","possesion","possessions","post","promote","promotion","realization","rejoice","rejoicing","self","state"],"id":150559,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. 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