{"quotes":[{"text":"It seems like the best escape games come from Japan for some reason. It makes me proud.","author":"Denis Markell","tags":["adventure","asian-american","heritage","japan","japanese-american","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","proud","puzzles","video-games"],"id":44883,"author_id":"Denis+Markell"},{"text":"Ever since I was young I enjoyed solving puzzles and having the pleasure to see the bigger picture afterwards. But even after all that, I found that life could be the most challenging puzzle we have to face. It's one of those things that even if you have all the pieces and could see the whole picture, it still takes time and patience to solve it. At times, we feel more at ease not knowing the whole picture, not knowing the whole level of difficulty or number of pieces that we're missing, but just building up one piece at a time. The problem with this approach is that the only clues that we have for matching two pieces are the shape and a small glimpse of the image. We so often find comfort in building up the corners and the borders but very rarely do we adventure in the middle of the puzzle. We'd rather work little by little holding on to our safe border and only move towards the center when the pieces are still in touch with our borders or roots. On the other hand, you could be one of those people that just jumps in the middle and builds up on every piece you have in order to get small portions of the truth of the bigger picture every now and then. Not having your borders or corners in place might mean that you don't need to know your limits in order to realize that the puzzle will one day come to an end. Nevertheless, every piece is equally important and it gets handed to you at a time where you have at least some matching piece. That doesn't mean you should only focus on one point or piece and limit your possible connections. Spread out and you will find even more connections. The truth of the puzzle information comes in different shapes and colors but in the end it's all connected. Information might be divided, spread out in different areas, different people, different experiences. What's important to remember is that every piece is meant for you. You might throw it on the side now and use it later, but it will forever remain a part of your bigger picture. Work on your puzzle, with patience and care in moving forward and with a hopeful spirit that it will all work out in the end for your highest good!","author":"Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache","tags":["bigger","borders","building","center","challenge","challenging","comfort","corners","difficulty","enjoy","glimpse","good","highest","level","life","matching","missing","moving","number","patience","picture","pieces","pleasure","problem","puzzle","puzzles","roots","shape","solve","solving","spirit","touch","young"],"id":51299,"author_id":"Virgil+Kalyana+Mittata+Iordache"},{"text":"The questions we don’t ask become the puzzles we don’t solve.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["answers","puzzles","questioning","questions","solving-problems"],"id":53249,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"Wait. Is a real, live adult person actually asking me details about the games I play? This is unheard of.","author":"Denis Markell","tags":["adventure","family-relationships","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","mystery","puzzles","surprises","video-games"],"id":97979,"author_id":"Denis+Markell"},{"text":"Let certain things be uncertain.Appreciate the puzzle that life is,insofar as I know, after a scheme of steps,all Crosswords have a solution,and every Sudoku makes a lot of sense.","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["answers","life","mystery","philosophy-of-life","puzzles-and-answers","puzzles-of-life","puzzles-of-life","puzzles","solutions","uncertainity"],"id":112444,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"},{"text":"I'm not a puzzle piece to someone else's puzzle, I'm my own puzzle that is still growing. I'm unsure of what it'll look like when it's done, but it will be uniquely me.","author":"Macy Niichel","tags":["happiness","life","puzzles"],"id":115612,"author_id":"Macy+Niichel"},{"text":"Madness is loving the unsolvable puzzle of your soul and replacing the lost pieces with my own.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["breakups","complete","dating","difficulties","divorce","empty-spaces","fights","hearts","insanity","love","madness","marriage","mystery","poetry","poets","prose","puzzle","puzzle-pieces","puzzled","puzzles","realism","relationship-problems","relationships","relationships-101","romance","romance-writers","romantic","soul","struggles","understanding"],"id":138602,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The hardest thing to do at times is to put our problems in the right perspective. Every problem may not exactly be a bad problem; some problems are solutions to bigger problems. Like solving a puzzle-it is advised we don't get used to guessing; if you don't have a clue, just ask for help and move up the next level.","author":"Asuni LadyZeal","tags":["inspirational","problems","puzzles"],"id":160475,"author_id":"Asuni+LadyZeal"},{"text":"The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["answers","attempt","beauty","beloved","burst","doubts","drown","enigmas","eyes","greatest","hair","in-love","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lakes","lasso","love","love-movement","love-poem","love-poetry","love-revolution","love-wins","lover","one-love","philosophical","philosophy","puzzles","questions","skin","stars","sun","thinkers","three-big-questions","universe","where-we-are-from","who-we-are","why-we-are-here"],"id":162346,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I like a puzzle, as you know. So does every scholar worth his salt. It's the reward of the business, to look history in the eye and say, 'I know who you are. You can't fool me'.","author":"Elizabeth Kostova","tags":["history","puzzles","scholars"],"id":174486,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Kostova"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}