{"quotes":[{"text":"Always being truthful gives you a certain kind of freedom. It springs forth like a fountain splashing throughout your body until it floods your soul. To be honest and to be trustworthy are great attributes. Ah, the power, Ah, the freedom.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["abundance","appearance","body","caring","devotion","encouragement","experience","faith","faithful","forgiveness","freedom","friendship","happiness","happy","heart","honest","honesty","hopeful","imagination","inspiration","inspire","kindness","lessons","lies","life","love","loving","mind","notable","passion","power","powerful","self-love","soul","speaking","spirit","talented","time","trusting","trustworthy","truth","understanding","values"],"id":34460,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you're more intelligent.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["articles","being","believe","blessings","books","care","caring","charity","concern","confide","confidence","courage","criteria","dedication","dependent","devotion","divine","emotional","emotions","everlasting","express","expression","faith","fulfillment","gossip","help","hope","hoping","humor","improvements","independent","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","intelligent","joy","kindness","knowledge","knowledge-of-self","lie","like","love","material","minds","neglect","new","notable","origin","original","origination","peace","people","place","published","reliable","rumors","safe","satisfaction","science","seek","self","spirit","spiritual","spoken","sure","talk","thankful","things","time","travel","treasure","troubles","truth","wisdom","words","words-to-live-by","world"],"id":74421,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"Comfort blindfolds; difficulty brings realization.Pain reveals; disappointments plant trigger of actions.Fear controls; ignorance deceives.Anger torments; silence keeps.Misunderstanding divides; love joins.Laughter starts; deception suspects.Frowning cautions; sorrow remembers.Purposefulness moves; idleness wastes.When you live in comfort, ponder.When you live in pain, take lessons.When life goes up, plant your feet and appreciate the height.When life goes down, envision the height and dare to get there with tenacity. Life is how you take and manage things. Be a manager of things or things shall be your manager.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["actions","actions-speak-louder-than-words","anger-management","comfort","deceptions","disappointments-pain","doing-great-things","fear","ignorance","life-and-living","life-lessons","love","manager-of-life","misunderstanding","notable","perseverance","perseverance","ponder","purposefulness","staying-at-the-top","tenacity","wisdom"],"id":116260,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["adulthood","adults","age","articles","birth","caring","character","characteristics","childhood","children","comparison","criteria","day","devotion","disgrace","facts","faith","family","field","forgiving","friends","heart","honest","hope","individual","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","integrity","joy","kindness","knowledge","legal","legalism","love","material","men","moral-character","morals","neglect","news","notable","parents","peace","politics","prayer","quotes","self-esteem","self-help","space","thanksgiving","time","trust","trustworthy","vision","wisdom","women"],"id":118115,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"In order to be a success, you must think like success. Get up and move! You got to make things happen.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["believe","believe-in-yourself","blessings","compassion","desires","dreams","expression","faith","freedom","goals","god","happiness","honesty","hope","inquisition","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","joy","love","motivation","motivational","notable","people","philosophy","quotes","to-live-by","self","strength","success","success","truth","words-of-wisdom","words-to-live-by","work"],"id":178018,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"Idolatry happens when you worship or praise anything excessively to the point of causing you to believe it reigns supreme. All things on this earth are temporal, even your very own desires. Be careful that you do not create idols to worship.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["actions","advantage","anxious","belief","believe","careful","cautious","choices","consequences","create","debate","decisions","desires","devotion","earth","earthly-things","faith","fake","fear","fearful","fiction","forgiveness","happiness","harm","honest","hope","idols","incomplete","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","joy","kindness","life-lessons","love","man","notable","open","own","past","people","pleasures","possessions","quotes","reign","shame","soul","spirit","spirituality","subject","superficial","temporal","things","trophy","trust","trustworthy","wise-words","wishes","woman","worship"],"id":224480,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"It's amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does that achieve? We all can make room for improvements. Most of the time it starts with a little attitude adjustment.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["achieve","achievements","attitude","believe","criteria","dedication","devotion","dreamer","dreams","faith","general","happiness","honestly","honesty","honor","independent","inspiration","inspirational","joy","kindness","life","life-lessons","living","love","loving","memory","notable","overwhelm","peace","practice","preparation","specific","success","support","trustworthy","truth","well-being"],"id":251568,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["beauty","caring","connections","courage","determination","divine-guidance","doors-open","faithfulness","faithless","fallen","fearless","fears","friendship","fruits-of-the-spirit","getting-back-up","god","godly-advice","godly","happiness","healing","heaven","history","honesty","hope","hurt","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","inspiring-messages","integrity","joy","kindness","knowledge-of-truth","lies","love","motivate","motivational","motivational","notable","pain","peace","peace-seekers","philosophy","quotes","to-live-by","survivor","truth","truthfulness","wisdom","words-to-live-by"],"id":255701,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"In the Light of your Wisdom, You Shine. In the Midst of your Truth, Your Faith is Evident. From inside your Spirit, You are Love.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["blessings","evidence","faith","gifts","honesty","hope","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","integrity","joy","knowledge","life-living","light","love","loving","notable","philosophy","poetry","poetry-love","poetry","quotes","on-happiness","on-life","on-love","to-live-by","shine","spirit","talents","time","truth","wisdom"],"id":271186,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"Thoughts guide you everyday. They become your choices. If you're not happy with your life, change your thoughts. Think more positive.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["choices","concern","consequences","dedication","deeds","devotion","general","guidance","happiness","happy","honesty","hope","inspiration","inspirational","inspire","joy","life","love","man","notable","pain","people","positive","principle","quotes","satisfaction","strength","things","thinking","thoughts","time","treasure","truth","weakness","woman","words"],"id":278443,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}