{"quotes":[{"text":"It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..And what happens is we cannot but remember it and all we think about is how to make now and after better than before.","author":"Temitayo A","tags":["age","be-better","experience","lessons","letting-go","life","love","moving-on","pains","scars","time"],"id":2709,"author_id":"Temitayo+A"},{"text":"Blessings Are Immeasurable'You can lose A child Or a parent,The love of your life,A good job,A game,A deal,A bet,An idea,Your favorite thing,Money,Your best friend,A moment,An opportunity,A chance,Your keys,Your mind,Your health,Your identity,Your virginity,Your religion,Your shirt,Your license,ID or Passport, Phone or phone number,Hope,Faith,Luck,Your pride,Or your house,And feel like You've lost everything,And keep on losing. Stop Counting your losses,And start counting your Blessings. Only then will you discover That losses are always easier to point out and count Than blessings. And that your blessings will always outnumber Your losses, For they are truly Immeasurable.It is only normal thatPeople count losses with Their minds,And ignoreTo count blessingsWith the graciousnessOf their hearts.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","bad-luck","blessings","chance","child","curse","cursed","fail","failing","failure","faith","falling","gains","graciousness","gratefulness","health","honor","hope","house","idea","job","life","living","lose","losing","losing-child","losing-hope","losing-someone","loss","losses","lost-everything","love","love-of-your-life","luck","moment","money","opportunity","pains","parent","pride","religion","steal","success","vices","virginity","win"],"id":81998,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad","castle","castles","dungeon","dungeons","edifice","edifices","food-for-thought","gain","gainful","gains","good","good-or-bad","heal","impress","impression","israelmore-ayivor","kill","lead-people","leader","leaders","leadership","manipulate","manipulations","manipulator","manipulators","mislead","misleader","misleaders","oppress","oppression","oppressive","oppressor","oppressors","pain","pain-and-gain","painful","pains","people","personal-development","push","self-improvement","vice","vices","virtue","virtues"],"id":89360,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Your emotions will wander like a vagabond when you're indebted. Those happy moments with friends will soon be interrupted with a frowning creditor in your sub-conscious, and all your frenzy will be taken aback.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["agony","bills","debt","emotion","emotions","feelings","happiness","indebted","labour","low-spirits","michael-bassey-johnson","pains","pay-your-bills","peace","peace-of-mind","settlement","strength","unhappy","weaken","work"],"id":127609,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.","author":"John Dryden","tags":["far","pleasures","pains "],"id":133631,"author_id":"John+Dryden"},{"text":"God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell!","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["child-bearing","die","fruits","go-to-hell","god","lust","pain","pains","pleasure","seed","tree","trees","urge"],"id":162186,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"You have been complaining so long about your labour pains. It's time to show us your baby! What at all have you been dreaming about that long? Let's see it and give it a name!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","achievement","action","baby","big-dreams","complain","complaining","complaint","dream-big","dreaming","dreams","food-for-thought","fruits","give","israelmore-ayivor","labor","labor-pains","labour","labour-pains","long","long-time","name","pains"],"id":179749,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["butterfly","caterpillar","fly","growth","life-lessons","metamorphosis","pains","process","recovery","sorrows","spirituality","transcendence","transformation","wings"],"id":207862,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"REMEMBER YOUR GREATNESSBefore you were born,And were still too tiny forThe human eye to see,You won the race for lifeFrom among 250 million competitors.And yet,How fast you have forgottenYour strength,When your very existenceIs proof of your greatness.You were born a winner,A warrior,One who defied the oddsBy surviving the most gruesomeBattle of them all.And now that you are a giant,Why do you even doubt victoryAgainst smaller numbers,And wider margins?The only walls that exist,Are those you have placed in your mind.And whatever obstacles you conceive,Exist only because you have forgottenWhat you have alreadyAchieved.Poetry by Suzy Kassem.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["achieve","affirmation","attitude","beauty","big","birth","born","competition","confidence","courage","egg","existence","eye","fears","giant","great","greatness","human","inspirational","life","living-achievement","loser","losing","loss","obstacles","odds","pains","poem","poetry","race","small","sperm","strength","struggles","success","successful","suffering","survivor","suzy-kassem","victory","warrior","win","winner","winners","winning","wisdom"],"id":220923,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"You hate America, don't you?' 'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["america","boundaries","elves-and-pixies","flaws","imaginary","pains","personality","pleasures","real-estate","virtues-and-vices"],"id":236189,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}