{"quotes":[{"text":"Adversity is awakening of spirit.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","awaken","fighting-spirit","inner-strength","inspirational","laila","overcomer","positive","self-motivation","spirit","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":22524,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Whatever you dream of, there will be fulfillment.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["achieve","achieving-dreams","ambition","believe","dream","dream-big","dreams-come-true","imagination","inspiration","inspiring","laila","positive-thinking","possibility"],"id":43738,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["aliveness","growth","hearts","laila","longing-for-love"],"id":140731,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"Dwell on the beauty of sacred-existence.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["beauty","encouragement","happiness","inspirational-life","laila","life","mindset","motivational","positive-thinking","sacred","spiritual"],"id":156451,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I was like a ten-year-old kid who had been scraped off a mother's love so sudden and surreal that I kept hoping I could chant a few magical words and slowly, Mama Jas would materialise in front of me.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["guilty-conscience","laila","longing","maternal-love","miracle"],"id":158903,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"It was bittersweet and lovely how this thing called family could make you feel belonged, wanted and complete.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["contentment","family","laila","love"],"id":191939,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"I never settled with anything. It was like a pendulum; swinging back and forth but never reached a comatose state. As a sequence of events around me unfolded, I struggled to understand who I was, whose child I was and whether I would ever find a way home.","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["dilemmaa","laila","life-and-living","maternal-love","mothers-and-daughters"],"id":203514,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"Prayer is a spiritual act.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["chrisitan","destiny","faith","fate","hope","inspirational","laila","prayer","praying","purpose","seeking-fate","self-awareness","self-motivation","spiritual"],"id":247680,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"You are the greatest wife of all times and I love you so much more’ said my husband, Jeremiah Nii Mama Akita.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["couples","happiness","joy","laila","love","moments","time","wife"],"id":275529,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I could just felt the twinge of resentment with her being there, where my mother was supposed to be. What right did she have, to replace that place?","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["laila","love-hate-relationship","love-hurts","mothers-and-daughters"],"id":300451,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}