{"quotes":[{"text":"A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","agricultural-revolution","agriculturalist","agriculture","agro","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","creative-writing","crops","essay","farm","farm-animals","farm-land","farmer","farmers","farming","green","hard-work","in-the-sun","indian-farmer","inspirational","irrigation","kisan","knowledge","magic","magician","money","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","mud","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rain","rhetoric","sayings","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","shetkari","slogans","social-networking","sow","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","trees","wisdom","wit","witty","writing"],"id":29066,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Through the Mud (from the book Blue Bridge)A line of robots,We approach a wall of mud,Some of us carrying flowers.The others laughBit when we enter that wallIt is the flowersThat will make us an arkTo carry us on through the darkness,Sailing throughWith our symbols the only lightUntil we flyOut over the fieldsOn the other side of midnightAnd all our wires And bits of metal fall off.-And our souls are bright again,So new and lightThey shoot up –Up to plant our brilliant flowersLike starsIn the face of heaven.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["ark","blue-bridge","darkness","flowers","fly","heaven","light","mud","plant","robots","stars"],"id":41396,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"They say that wisdom is a dying flower, and I disagree. In a world covered in mud, the lotus still continues to grow. Even after mankind washes itself away from the surface of the earth, knowledge will still remain. Look no further than the bosom of Nature. It offers all the solutions needed to cure and unite humanity. Wise men only exist as interpreters and transmitters of Truth. Their time on earth is limited, but Nature's existence is eternal. Open books shall always exist for those with an opened eye and pure heart; for Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bookslotus","classroom","cure","dying","earth","eternal","eye","flower","grow","heart","humanity","intermitter","knowledge","mankind","mend","mud","nature","opened-eye","pure-heart","solutions","surface","third-eye","time","translator","transmitter","truth","unite","washes","wisdom","wise","wise-men","world"],"id":43122,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","africa","african","anorexia","anorexic","aphorism","aphorisms","appetite","axiom","axioms","bmi","body-fat","body-mass-index","cheat-day","cheat-days","clean","deep","dictum","dictums","diet","dietician","dieticians","dietitian","dietitians","epigram","epigrams","exercise","exercises","fat","fatty","food","funny","gnome","gnomes","gym","gymnasium","health","healthy","hose","humor","humorous","humour","ingredient","ingredients","insightful","lean","lose-weight","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mud","muscles","muscular","necessary","necessity","obese","obesity","overeat","overeater","overeating","overweight","philosopher","pig","pigs","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","recipe","recipes","roll","rolling","salad","salads","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","shred","shredded","skinny","south-africa","south-african","spotless","sugar","sugary","thought-provoking","thoughtful","underweight","watch-what-you-eat","weight","weight-loss","weight-to-height","weightlifter","weightlifting","workout"],"id":45938,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","competition","confidence","doubt","environment","envy","growth","jealousy","life","lotus-flower","mud","negativity","pride","self-worth","success","surroundings","suzy-kassem","ugliness","ugly","worth"],"id":55248,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"And soon we were just rolling around on the ground, cursing and screeching and ripping out handfuls of hair. Without super hearing, I wouldn't have heard Zeb whisper, 'This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.'Maybe they'll get muddy,' Dick said. 'Please, Lord, let them get muddy.","author":"Molly Harper","tags":["dick","funny","jane-jameson","missy","molly-harper","mud","nice-girls-don-t-have-fangs","richard","zeb"],"id":56713,"author_id":"Molly+Harper"},{"text":"We live in a world where a hut made of clay is more durable than brick buildings, because poverty doesn't allow it to be reconstructed.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["allow","brick","building","buildings","clay","durable","hut","live","live-life","made","more","mud","philosophical","poor","poverty","poverty-wealth","reconstructed","reconstruction","third-world","wisdom","wisdom","world"],"id":73455,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"To a farmer dirt is not a waste, it is wealth.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","agricultural-revolution","agriculturalist","agriculture","agro","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","blog","blogging","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","characters","creative-writing","crops","dirt","essay","farm","farm-animals","farm-land","farmer","farmers","farming","green","hard-work","in-the-sun","indian-farmer","inspirational","irrigation","kisan","knowledge","magic","magician","money","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","mud","novel-writing","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","punchline","quotes","rain","rhetoric","sayings","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","shetkari","slogans","social-networking","sow","speech","speechwriting","story","tag-lines","trees","useful","waste","wealth","wisdom","wit","witty","writing"],"id":89908,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"Life is made up of marble and mud.","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","tags":["mud","up","marble "],"id":91960,"author_id":"Nathaniel+Hawthorne"},{"text":"Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["challenges","lotus","lotus-blossoms","lotus-flower","mud","patience","problems-in-life","problems-in-the-world","seeds","self-awareness","self-force","self-help","struggle","waiting"],"id":94710,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}