{"quotes":[{"text":"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ambition","attitude","bills","business","busy","career","design","enjoyment","enjoyment-of-life","ethics","food","hard-labor","hard-work","humanity","hustle","hustler","idleness","intent","job","labor","laziness","life","lifestyle","living","make-a-living","making-money","means","money","money-making","peace","peace-of-mind","purpose","reason","relaxation","resources","responsibility","slavery","slothfulness","vacation","vanity","vocation","work","work-ethic","working"],"id":8123,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Before civilization, artists painted for the living. Today, most paint for a living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["art","artist","civilization","make-a-living","money","rent","sellout","social-commentary","survival"],"id":118594,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","basic-needs","busy","busyness","civilization","civilized","companies","company","cook","cooking","deep","dictum","dictums","eat","eat-out","eating","employee","employees","epigram","epigrams","exploit","exploitation","exploited","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","groceries","grocery","humor","humorous","humour","hunger","hungry","innate","insightful","laziness","lazy","made-me-think","make-a-living","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","owner","owners","persuade","philosopher","produce","production","profound","progress","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","restaurant","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","self-presavation","south-africa","south-african","starvation","starve","survival","survive","sustenance","takeaway","takeaways","takeout","thought-provoking","thoughtful","uncivilized"],"id":142124,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Too many people are too busy making a living to make a life.","author":"Roy T. Bennett","tags":["inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","inspiring","life","life","living","make-a-life","make-a-living","optimism","optimistic","positive","positive-affirmation","positive-life","positive-thinking"],"id":403500,"author_id":"Roy+T.+Bennett"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}