{"quotes":[{"text":"Living your life through Gratitude, is not one of comparing how you are better than someone else; or Gratitude only for what you own or obtain or achieve. Living your life through Gratitude, is seeing that the world would be missing something very valuable if you were not in it.","author":"Sumner Davenport","tags":["gratitude","life-choices","personal-value"],"id":3553,"author_id":"Sumner+Davenport"},{"text":"Although I love elegant parties, dancing and dining and spending the night with a sweet woman in my arms, my life belongs to literature.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["beauty","body-vs-mind","choices","dancing","life-choices","life-decisions-choices","literature","love","night","parties","roman-payne","temptation","wanderess","woman","women"],"id":8976,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"You might say that S. Has only himself to blame, that it is entirely his choice to fight this fight, to live a life of vigilant somnolence or somnolent vigilantism, to allow himself to be satisfied with Sola in the margins of his manuscripts instead of in his arms, and you might be right. But you ought to understand, too, that there's an attrition that takes place inside, one in which options and choices and even desires are ground ever smaller until finally their existence can no longer be confirmed by observation or weight or displacement but only by faith. Until desire is a ghost.","author":"Doug Dorst","tags":["attrition","choices","desire","life-choices","options","sacrifice"],"id":13253,"author_id":"Doug+Dorst"},{"text":"They know a lot, but they don’t know everything, and they can’t advise you on anything.They can only tell you what they believe worked / or didn’t work for them.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-advice","career-choices","career-paths","children","family","ilife","life-advice","life-choices","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":20822,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["fiend","good-vs-evil","life-choices","shakespeare"],"id":21374,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"It is all about trusting your choice that you have already made.","author":"Jasz Gill","tags":["believe","choices","faith","jasz-gill","life-choices","trust"],"id":23380,"author_id":"Jasz+Gill"},{"text":"Parents like to think of themselves as Batmans, and of their children as Gotham Cities. Gotham City depends on Batman for its survival, and Batman delivers. This belief prevents parents from letting those young adults actually live their lives.","author":"Lukasz Laniecki","tags":["career-choices","children","choices","experience","learning","learning-process","life","life-choices","mistakes","parenting","parents","success","young-adults"],"id":34369,"author_id":"Lukasz+Laniecki"},{"text":"He was free-free to choose to swing from a tree for the afternoon rather than mend fences or train horses. He was free to live.","author":"Elizabeth Michels","tags":["life-changing","life-choices","profound-realizations"],"id":92111,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Michels"},{"text":"There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["compassion","embracing-life","energy","flow","happiness","inspirational","life-changing","life-choices","mindfulness","peace","peace-of-mind","rasheed-ogunlaru","understanding","wisdom"],"id":100048,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to take the pipe or eat the gun or take a long walk off a short dock, you can't say no to some things. You can't refuse to pick up your option because there is no option.","author":"Stephen King","tags":["aphorism","choice","consequences","gut-feeling","instinct","life-choices"],"id":109009,"author_id":"Stephen+King"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}