{"quotes":[{"text":"Close your eyes, Matt, and focus on third eye, the second chakra of your being. Open third eye and you will feel energy of other river as it flows. And energy of Goddess.” He closed his eyes. He could sense the energy of the woman next to him and the power of desire. He felt warmth and a sense of belonging here. But that was all.","author":"Joe Niemczura","tags":["buddhism","kaligandaki-river","nepal","third-eye"],"id":66641,"author_id":"Joe+Niemczura"},{"text":"The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.","author":"Jane Wilson-Howarth","tags":["himalayas","inspirational","mountains","nepal","travel"],"id":107188,"author_id":"Jane+Wilson-Howarth"},{"text":"Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains.","author":"Jeffrey Rasley","tags":["biography","expeditions","himalayas","memoir","mountaineering","mountains","nepal","philanthropy","three-cups-of-tea","tibet","trekking"],"id":127766,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Rasley"},{"text":"People who have made comparative studies of many different societies, know that when status is ascribed, rather than achieved, individual efforts towards excellence are not directed through any form of innovation; rather, the enhancement of status occurs only through the realisation of a previously well defined role position. It is only with social change, or when some form of continual dynamic disequilibium occurs in a society, that we begin to observe the development of achievement motivation in its modern form.","author":"Dor Bahadur Bista","tags":["anthropology","culture","nepal"],"id":167173,"author_id":"Dor+Bahadur+Bista"},{"text":"He wasn't a great man, but he had a great life.","author":"Jeffrey Rasley","tags":["adventure-travel","biography","himalayas","inspirational","memoir","mountaineering","nepal","sherpas","sir-edmund-hillary","trekking"],"id":180749,"author_id":"Jeffrey+Rasley"},{"text":"I reckon that blaming people fixes nothing. You're the only person who is going to sort you out. No-one else really can - or really cares, enough. That's what Nepalis know - better than anyone. That's our Western disease. Don't take responsibility. Take on a lawyer!","author":"Jane Wilson-Howarth","tags":["blame","blaming-others","fixing-oneself","nepal","self-help"],"id":181989,"author_id":"Jane+Wilson-Howarth"},{"text":"It is hard to write it in words that I can read, that re-establishes the fact that has been haunting me for the past one year.","author":"Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary","tags":["earthquake","girl","hope","india","nepal","personal-loss","power","woman"],"id":193607,"author_id":"Kudrat+Dutta+Chaudhary"},{"text":"But whenever tragedy strikes, one is left either to die or with a plethora of ifs and buts to ponder over.","author":"Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary","tags":["cry","earthquake","human-trafficking","laiza","loss","nepal","pain","pleathora","tragedy","woman"],"id":207296,"author_id":"Kudrat+Dutta+Chaudhary"},{"text":"Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile ‘cigarette and sweets’ stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.","author":"Jennifer S. Alderson","tags":["asia","backpacking","memoir","nepal","thailand","travel","travel","travel-writing","traveling-abroad","traveling-alone","volunteering"],"id":209628,"author_id":"Jennifer+S.+Alderson"},{"text":"If walking into the responsibility of caring for eighteen children was difficult, walking out on that responsibility was almost impossible. The children had become a constant presence, little spinning tops that splattered joy onto everyone they bumped into.","author":"Conor Grennan","tags":["children","inspiration","nepal","travel","volunteering"],"id":219758,"author_id":"Conor+Grennan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}