{"quotes":[{"text":"Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["existence","philosophic-questions","philosophic","philosophical-musings","philosophical","philosophy","philosphy-of-life","q"],"id":30567,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aged","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","belief","beliefs","birth","burial","bury","child","children","cycle","dead","death","die","elder","elders","fallacies","fallacy","funeral","funerals","funny","gone-too-soon","hereafter","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","joke","jokes","kid","kids","life","life-after-death","life-and-death","misbelief","misbeliefs","misconception","misconceptions","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","offspring","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","philosopher","philosophers-cry","philosophic","philosophy","prepare","prepared","quotations","quotes","rest-in-peace","rip","satire","stoic","stoicism","stoics","surprise","surprising","the-elders","the-hereafter","tomb","tombstone","tombstones","unprepared","weep"],"id":54786,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Life is going to beat you up, it wouldn't be fair if you didn't throw some punches back at it.","author":"Bradley Bowman","tags":["fighting","life","life-lessons","obstacles","overcoming","philosophic","the-meaning-of-life","thought-provoking","thoughtful"],"id":192660,"author_id":"Bradley+Bowman"},{"text":"If you ask a tree how he feels to know that he's spreading his fragrance and making people happy, I don't think a tree looks at it that way. I am just like that, and it is just my nature to be like this.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["happy","philosophic"],"id":225993,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"We, ignorant of ourselves,Beg often our own harms, which the wise powersDeny us for our good; so find we profitBy losing of our prayers.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["philosophic","religion"],"id":443245,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}