{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["battle","life","melody","peace","sing-a-melody","song","winning","world-peace"],"id":19220,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"},{"text":"The melody of music makes my heart merry.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["happiness","inspiring","melody","music"],"id":25193,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Words are weapons stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.","author":"Pierce Brown","tags":["heart","melody","mind","music"],"id":28011,"author_id":"Pierce+Brown"},{"text":"I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I'm not around to tell you so.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["art","dad","kiera-cass","love","melody","paint","parent","picture","song","the-one","the-selection","words"],"id":28131,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"Failure becomes success when it finds positive minds; Tragedy becomes melody when it lands in positive hands. With positivity, possibility is assured!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["fail","failure","food-for-thought","hands","israelmore-ayivor","melody","minds","positive","positivity","possibility","possible","success","tragedy"],"id":32218,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Broken MelodyBroken melody — tear sparkling in the eyeOf a woman loved…Please past,Jewel lost,A trampled dreamLips unkissedIn the broken melody.With silent sobs the naked shoulders shake,Their whiteness dazzling…Stabbed, stabbed with remorseFor the moments of mindlessness,For her ruined fate,For the happiness lostIn the broken melody.Face hidden in her hands in shame,Remorsefully the woman weeps,With heart despairing(A broken guitar,A voice stifledOn lips kissed by painIn the broken melody).Silent he stands beside the woman weepingScolding tears of shameThat dim her eyes.Some money on the table quickly laysAnd goes away,Leaving the woman lostIn the broken melody.But when another comes, lust mounts again,The heated bloodPounds furiously through the veins,Benumbing mind… and only gaspsAnd grants are heardIn the horrid melody.(Translated by R.Elsie).","author":"Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (Migjeni)","tags":["broken","melancholy","melody","poem","suffering"],"id":48201,"author_id":"Millosh+Gjergj+Nikolla+%28Migjeni%29"},{"text":"Make sure your fun is not mocking someone’s pain and your enjoyment is not another’s suffering. The melody of your ears must not be the cries of a powerless.","author":"Shahla Khan","tags":["assault","domestic-violence","enjoyment","fun","harassment","melody","pain","powerless","rape","suffering","violence"],"id":62536,"author_id":"Shahla+Khan"},{"text":"Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...And I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...Where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...In long and priceless moments of shared solitude...","author":"Oksana Rus","tags":["art","artist","blue","blueness","dance","dancing","earth","feet","follow","free","freedom","hand","heart","island","letter","long","love","lover","melody","message","moment","night","oksana-rus","priceless","rolling","romance","romantic","sacred","secret","share","simple","sky","solitude","song","stars","water","wave","white","whole","will"],"id":87972,"author_id":"Oksana+Rus"},{"text":"You can learn things from a heart so bleedingWhen love bargains with deceitful pleading Hours soar from dawn to dawn splitting your time Don’t hear melody from a soundless chime.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["bargain","bleeding","bleeding-heart","chime","chimes","dark","dawn","deceit","deceitful","heart","heartache","hours","hours-of-work","learn","lies","love","love","melody","pleading","soar","soundless","splitting","time"],"id":98270,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["balance","good-mood","happy","instruments","lyrics","melody","music","power","sing","song","soothe","soul","spirit","therapy","tune"],"id":100668,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}