{"quotes":[{"text":"Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you.","author":"J.R. Rim","tags":["back-to-god","belief","echo","echoes","friends","friendship","philosophies","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","reflect","reflected-in-you","reflection","reflection-on-life","true","true-friend","truth"],"id":781,"author_id":"J.R.+Rim"},{"text":"I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask \u0026 I thought “wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan” afterwards on a break I approached her \u0026 asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? \u0026 then she said “in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather \u0026 you don’t want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do” wow! That's a lesson I will never forget.","author":"Pablo","tags":["compassion","empathy","inspirational","lessons","motivational","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","winter","wisdom"],"id":1352,"author_id":"Pablo"},{"text":"A writer of any merit does not worry about being accepted everywhere. He must write to inspire, to change for the better or to challenge the status quo!","author":"Avijeet Das","tags":["inspirational-life","life-lessons","life","philosophy-of-life","why-i-write","writer","writer","writers-inspiration","writers-on-writing"],"id":1570,"author_id":"Avijeet+Das"},{"text":"We need to see better to be better.","author":"Sara Niles","tags":["insights","philosophy-of-life"],"id":2042,"author_id":"Sara+Niles"},{"text":"Living well is dying well.","author":"Fakeer Ishavardas","tags":["inspirational-life","life-and-death","life-philosophy","motivational","philosophy-of-life"],"id":3036,"author_id":"Fakeer+Ishavardas"},{"text":"Like simple minded goldfish, we often believe the boundaries of our bowl to be the entire ocean.","author":"Laren Grey Umphlett","tags":["philosophy-of-life"],"id":3593,"author_id":"Laren+Grey+Umphlett"},{"text":"When the ocean get poisoned even a sip will be deadly.","author":"Mohammed Sekouty","tags":["philosophy-of-life"],"id":3719,"author_id":"Mohammed+Sekouty"},{"text":"Civilization could not exist without tremors of desire and without the counteracting, negation force of disciplined denial. Nor would the gyratory pulsations of a lively civilization exist devoid of the convulsive chemistry of union and repellency. We are born with a desire to be immortal. Cursed with the knowledge that we must die, people live their orthodox lives out by displaying reckless abandon as to the outcome of human life or nervously hounded by utter despondency nipping their heels. How we resolve this decidedly human complex of carrying out our daily lives while burden by our inescapable mortality determines our essential character. The collation of similar values adopted by our community determines who we are as a people.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["attitude","attitude","attitude-toward-life","attraction","attraction","character","civilization","culture-and-attitude","culture-identity","denial","desire","desires","desires-and-dreams","desires","existence","existentialism","immortality","personal-development","philosophy-of-life","self-discipline"],"id":3758,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.","author":"Cheryl Strayed","tags":["inspirational","life","meaning","memoir","philosophy-of-life","storytelling","writing-advice"],"id":3798,"author_id":"Cheryl+Strayed"},{"text":"Most people take health at face value. Quite often people understand that health is the most valuable possession only after they become seriously ill.","author":"Eraldo Banovac","tags":["health","illness","illness","philosophy","philosophy-of-life","philosophy","possession","possession","sociology","sociology"],"id":4119,"author_id":"Eraldo+Banovac"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1229,"pages":123,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}