{"quotes":[{"text":"As she rounded a corner one of her favourite songs came on the radio, and sunlight filtered through the trees the way it does with lace curtains, reminding her of her grandmother, and tears began to slide down her cheeks. Not for her grandmother, who was then still very much among the living, but because she felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. It overwhelmed her, made her pull the car to the side of the road. Afterwards she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn’t being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It’s a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won’t last forever.","author":"Steven Galloway","tags":["humility","insight","life-changing","mortality","overwhelming"],"id":26389,"author_id":"Steven+Galloway"},{"text":"The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.","author":"Ashly Lorenzana","tags":["life","overwhelming","randomness","universe","world"],"id":66626,"author_id":"Ashly+Lorenzana"},{"text":"South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["affirmative-action","country","excluding","job-market","legislatively","majority","overwhelming","policies","political-control","protect","racist","south-africa","threatened","tiny-minority"],"id":124271,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"In the age of technology there is constant access to vast amounts of information. The basket overflows; people get overwhelmed; the eye of the storm is not so much what goes on in the world, it is the confusion of how to think, feel, digest, and react to what goes on.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["access","age","confusion","eye","information","information-overload","internet","issue","junkies","media","mind","mind-control","mind-pollution","mobile","news","overload","overwhelming","storm","technology","too-much","world"],"id":137378,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is good. It is the first telling that God is indeed God, by sheer definition, and not some ear-tickling fairy by which one in his depravity is guaranteed to find another form of stale romanticism or love at first sight. For such a first impression as the latter would be problematic to the essence of Christianity. Therefore the Christians are right in saying that the nature of imperfect men cannot ultimately co-exist with the nature of a perfect God; and that the hope of each man is now desperately found in God's sending of Christ.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["agnosticism","apologetics","atheism","bible","christ","christianity","depravity","domineering","evil","faith","fear","god","good","grace","holiness","holy","imperfect","justification","justification-by-faith","love","mercy","new-testament","old-testament","overwhelming","perfect","redemption","religion","respect","salvation","sanctification","savior","sin","skepticism","skepticism-of-religion","spirituality","theism","theology","truth","tyrant","wrath","wrath-of-god"],"id":166101,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.","author":"John Green","tags":["imagination","overwhelming","people"],"id":174860,"author_id":"John+Green"},{"text":"What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologies","deceit","defamation","denial","enemy","feelings","feelings-of-weakness","gossip","grave","guilt","libel","lies","manipulation","massive","misdeed","overwhelming","slander"],"id":230095,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"...The total number of galaxies in the universe seems to be in the region of ten billion, and that each of them has about a hundred billion stars the size of the sun. These numbers are so absurd that I strangely find myself in a good mood. It's all so immense. I think Paul feels a bit like this as well. There is so little I can do to make a difference. It is liberating.","author":"Erlend Loe","tags":["insignificence","liberation","overwhelming","universe"],"id":243742,"author_id":"Erlend+Loe"},{"text":"Your marks don’t matter when your radiance is overwhelming. When we’re our best selves we forget all those imperfections and appreciate beauty for how it is.","author":"Saim .A. Cheeda","tags":["all","appreciate","beauty","best-self","forget","imperfections","marks","overwhelming","radiance","self-worth"],"id":271351,"author_id":"Saim+.A.+Cheeda"},{"text":"An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behaviour is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","arrogance","arrogant","behavior","behaviour","funny","hilarious","humble","humility","humor","humorous","humour","insufferable","insupportable","intolerable","joke","jokes","modest","modesty","oppressive","overpowering","overwhelming","satire","tolerable","tolerate","too-much","unacceptable","unbearable","unendurable"],"id":279111,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}