{"quotes":[{"text":"Dancing every night enhances a positive energy.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["dance","exercise","health","healthy-living","life","lifestyle","living","long-life","music","positive","self-confidence","self-esteem","spiritual-wisdom","sport","wisdom-of-lailah-gifty-akita"],"id":74948,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"To the loyal and to the blood-lovers, in the good families and in the fiery dynasties, life is family and family is life. It is the same people who give advice and their vices to live well who turn out to be the ones who give resource and reason to live long.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["advice","ancestors","aunt","blood","blood-is-thicker-than-water","bloodlines","brother","cousin","daughter","descendants","dignity","dynasty","faithfulness","family","father","fellowship","friendship","grandfather","grandmother","grandparents","holy-matrimony","honor","husband","life","living","living-well","long-life","love","loyalty","marriage","matrimony","meaning","meaning-of-life","mother","nobility","parents","purpose","purpose-of-life","reason","relationship","relatives","resources","royalty","sister","son","spouse","trust","uncle","vice","wealth","wife"],"id":126917,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Every soul craves to fill the void. Only God can satisfy and set us free.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","belief","christian","christian-life","depression","despair","disappointment","emptiness","faith","freedom","god","god-grace","hope","intercessory-prayer","lessons-in-life","liberty","long-life","positive-thinking","pray","praying-life","religion","saved-from-sin","saved-from-sins","saved-my-life","saved-soul","self-awareness","self-love","set-free","stress","uplifting","warfare-prayers","wise-words"],"id":216917,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Money gives you options,Hard work gives you success, Healthy relationships give you a long life, But faith gives you everything!","author":"Farshad Asl","tags":["faith","hard-work","healthy-relationships","long-life","money","options","success"],"id":272701,"author_id":"Farshad+Asl"},{"text":"Though you can live for as much as you like, but your longevity is stupidity if you were leading a worthless life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["aphorism","common-sense","difference","forever","future","humor","life","long-life","longevity","making-a-difference","plans","possibility","stupidity","wisdom","witty","worthless"],"id":272767,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"There should be an age limit for patients, he thinks as he takes off his shoes. You just have to say to them, 'You lived long enough. From now on, think of what's left as a bonus, a gift without an exchange slip. It hurts? Stay in bed. It still hurts? Wait: Either you'll die or it'll pass.","author":"Etgar Keret","tags":["aging","death","illness","life","long-life","sickness"],"id":280386,"author_id":"Etgar+Keret"},{"text":"These... Things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, \u0026 hard to obtain in the world:Long life is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, \u0026 hard to obtain in the world.Beauty is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, \u0026 hard to obtain in the world.Happiness is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, \u0026 hard to obtain in the world.Status is welcome, agreeable, pleasant, \u0026 hard to obtain in the world....Now, I tell you, these... Things are not to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes. If they were to be obtained by reason of prayers or wishes, who here would lack them? It's not fitting for the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life to pray for it or to delight in doing so. Instead, the disciple of the noble ones who desires long life should follow the path of practice leading to long life. In so doing, he will attain long l.","author":"Gautama Buddha","tags":["beauty","buddhism","happiness","ittha-sutta","long-life","pleasant","status","sutta","wishes"],"id":298104,"author_id":"Gautama+Buddha"},{"text":"Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["death","enjoyment","fame","long-life","option","opulence","premature-death","quantity","substitute","substitution"],"id":300276,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"لا شئ يجعل الإنسان مستعد للموت .. مثل العمر الطويل.","author":"أنيس منصور","tags":["death","long-life"],"id":307585,"author_id":"%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3+%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1"},{"text":"The more you live, the more today you see, the more yesterday’s you left and the more tomorrow you say! Only those who have lived long can best tell the regrets of yesterday, the lessons in today and the real reasons to ponder before you say and think of tomorrow!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-good-life","experience-in-life","footprints","inspirational-words","life-and-living","life-lessons","long-life","old-age","regrets-in-life","regrets-of-yesterday","thought","tomorrow","wisdom-of-old-age","words-of-wisdom","youth"],"id":311289,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}