{"quotes":[{"text":"Question the status quo; rebuke the existing rules, though it may be at the discomfort of the masses. They may however come to a later realization that it was really worth it and you may now have the status quo.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["daring","doing-the-right-thing","facing-problems","inspirational","lessons-of-life","living-well","mediocrity","motivational","purposefulness","refusing-to-give-up","relivance-of-our-existence","resilience","the-status-quo","wisdom","wit"],"id":9884,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"A person achieves enlightenment only through a purposeful engagement with life and by resolutely searching for truth and shedding artifices.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","meaningful-life","meaningful-living","meaningfulness","purpose","purpose-driven-life","purposeful-journey","purposeful-living","purposefulness","search-for-truth"],"id":69678,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"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":"So many people live life without knowing the life they are living. We must get a reasonable reason for living.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["best-life","confusion","essence-of-life","motivational","purposefulness","reason-for-living","reasons","reasons-to-live","wandering","wandering-life","wandering-thoughts"],"id":139164,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"The greatest challenge in life is to be our own person and accept that being different is a blessing and not a curse. A person who knows who they are lives a simple life by eliminating from their orbit anything that does not align with his or her overriding purpose and values. A person must be selective with their time and energy because both elements of life are limited.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["authentic-living","authentic-self","authenticity","enlightenment","enlightenment-principles","enlightenment","know-thyself","meaningful-life","purpose-driven-life","purposeful-living","purposefulness","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","simple-life","simple-life","simple-living","simple-pleasures","simple-things","true-self"],"id":161103,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"If you give people the reasons to reason and you don't reason, reason!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["helping-others-deal-with-stress","helping-others-in-need","helping-people","inspirational","inspiring-to-inspire","learning-to-be-a-master","learning-to-shine","living-well","look-to-your-self-first","loving-others","motivational","purposefulness","reasons","self-awareness","self-improvement"],"id":163573,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Risk is everywhere and we all do take risk everyday, knowingly or unknowingly.Ordinary risk produces ordinary men and extraordinary risk equals extraordinary men. The unique line of boundary between the ordinary and the extraordinary is the risk they both take. Great and extraordinary people patiently take a visionary, calculated and an avant-garde risk regardless of the susurrant and cacophonic call of the masses to retreat. They fall, they learn and they move. Without taking a thoughtful risk, we risk our lives unthoughtfully each day.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["best-on-risk-taking","extraordinary","focus","patience-and-timing","psyche","purposefulness","risk","vision"],"id":165554,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Living deeply requires more than a static vivisection of a person’s history and a cold survey of the world. Living a meaningful life entails immersion in the continuous flow of life through passionate thinking, observation, and directed action.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["meaning-of-life","meaning-of-life","passion","passion-for-learning","passion-for-life","passion-for-living","philosophy-of-life","purpose","purposeful-journey","purposeful-life","purposeful-living","purposefulness"],"id":331594,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Purposefulness is a must.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["purpose","purposeful","purposefulness"],"id":429672,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}