{"quotes":[{"text":"When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["books","personal-development","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation"],"id":25091,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Everyone wants to be happy and live mindfully. Books teach us how to resuscitate the body and soul and how to recognize what in our own personal lives is worthy of noticing. Writers’ considered opinions and subtle observations regarding the joys, paradoxes, pains, tragedies, and truths of living provide us with a jumpstart in analyzing how best to integrate our personal experiences and disjointed thoughts into a cogent belief system. An artistic person understands their passions demand a struggle. Reading allows me unobtrusively to discover how other people freed themselves from suffering a destructive life of attachment, delusion, and disablement.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["happiness","mindfulness","mindfulness","reading-for-life","reading","suffering-of-humanity"],"id":38042,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I have falling in love with reading.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["lifelong-learner","lifelong-learning","lifelong-reader","lifelong-reading","read","read-and-write","read-for-a-lifetime","reader","readers","readers-and-writers","reading","reading-aloud","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","reading-readers-writers","reading-secrets","reading-thinking"],"id":40560,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.","author":"Chila Woychik","tags":["books","on-being-a-rat","reading","reading-for-life","wonder-of-books","writing","writing-life"],"id":52535,"author_id":"Chila+Woychik"},{"text":"There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["books","books-reading","carla-h-krueger","change-life","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","writers"],"id":64381,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Lover of books, lover of knowledge.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["book","book-lovers","book","books-reading","bookstores","bookworm","college-education","college-life","educational","educational-philosophy","educational","knowledge-education","knowledge-wisdom","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","reading-thinking","university","wisdom-inspirational","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":75192,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.","author":"Carla H. Krueger","tags":["books","books-reading","carla-h-krueger","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading","writers"],"id":76967,"author_id":"Carla+H.+Krueger"},{"text":"Authors do not need to offer us the answers to such weighty questions such as how to live and prepare us to accept death. The aim of a writer’s is to frame worldly questions that allow all readers too independently and jointly explore life-altering questions in a way that satisfies the fabric of thought corresponding to our respective times.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["book-reading","readers","readers-and-writers","reading-for-life","writers-on-writing","writing-process"],"id":82236,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Be great, read great books.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["be-great","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","books-reading","great-books","great-glory","great-reads","great-work","read","reading","reading-books","reading-for-life","reading-habits","reading-motivation","reading"],"id":127288,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Books are more to treasure than cars.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["book-lovers","book","books-reading","bookshelves","bookstores","educational","learning","learning-to-read","lifelong-education","lifelong-learner","lifelong-reading","reading-books","reading-books-humor","reading-for-life"],"id":153399,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}