{"quotes":[{"text":"You may choose to live in a world of fantasy if you like, my dear, but I am a realist.","author":"Ransom Riggs","tags":["fantasy","realist"],"id":5619,"author_id":"Ransom+Riggs"},{"text":"I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.","author":"Tan Redding","tags":["contemporary-romance","desire","deviant","fate","life-lessons","love","love-hurts","lovers","realist","sin","truth"],"id":9364,"author_id":"Tan+Redding"},{"text":"And when I fall in love,” I began, 'I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["build","clouds","dreamers","dreaming","dreams","fall-in-love","feet","firm","grass","grounded","heads","idealists","ideals","illusions","love","lover","mountain","purple","realist","reality","sky","worlds"],"id":24862,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"Perfectionists talk about first love. Realists talk about true love. Optimists talk just about love.","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["deep","faith","life","love","love","lovers","optimist","perfectionist","philosophy","realist","thoughts","true-love-first-love","wisdom"],"id":61487,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"},{"text":"People who are too optimistic seem annoying. This is an unfortunate misinterpretation of what an optimist really is. Usage of all options available, no matter how limited. As such, an optimist always sees the big picture. How else to keep track of all that’s out there? An optimist is simply a proactive realist. Choices.When bobbing for apples, an idealist endlessly reaches for the best apple, a pessimist settles for the first one within reach, while an optimist drains the barrel, fishes out all the apples and makes pie.Annoying? Yes. But, oh-so tasty!","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["annoying","apple","apples","bobbing","choices","energetic","energy","hope","optimism","optimist","optimistic","pessimism","pessimist","realism","realist"],"id":72111,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I wonder which one YOU are. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!","author":"Bill Watterson","tags":["ideas","pragmatist","principles","realist","spontaneity","thinking","thoughts","whimsical"],"id":73422,"author_id":"Bill+Watterson"},{"text":"The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also.","author":"Fyodor Dostoyevsky","tags":["miracles","realist","religious"],"id":80059,"author_id":"Fyodor+Dostoyevsky"},{"text":"I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.","author":"Heather Chapple","tags":["everyday-people","females","humor","realist","reality-tv","society","women"],"id":97155,"author_id":"Heather+Chapple"},{"text":"Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["actions","answers","choices","decisions","diversity","faith","family","friends","love-one-another","mysteries","people","pessimist","realist","unexplained","universe"],"id":121922,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I am awake and yet I dream. You can be the realist and I can be the dreamer. When our worlds collide one day, I will show you another dimension of life that most dare not to believe in. This world exists just as much as the tangible one. This is where I will always love you.","author":"Karen A. Baquiran","tags":["dreamer","love","love","love-you","realist"],"id":130511,"author_id":"Karen+A.+Baquiran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}