{"quotes":[{"text":"My spiritual high naturally dissipated. At some point you've got to come out of the clouds and live real life. Again, it's just like falling in love. The feeling of euphoria is only temporary.","author":"Pattie Mallette","tags":["god","justin-bieber","nowhere-but-up","pattie-mallette","realization"],"id":3225,"author_id":"Pattie+Mallette"},{"text":"A man sat down by a tree every day for 2 weeks. It was a beautiful Wisteria tree with purple flowers. Every day, around the same time, he would come to the park and sit by this tree. On the fourteenth day, he came to the park and approached the tree and as he sat down, he closed his eyes as he always did. Only this time when he opened them, the tree withered and died before him. The man then looked around and before he knew it, he had found that he never came to the tree at all, but was in an asylum the whole time.","author":"Justin Bienvenue","tags":["deep-thought","inspirational","reality","realization"],"id":4040,"author_id":"Justin+Bienvenue"},{"text":"Nearly everyday life leans over and says, ‘Come on down!’ But standing at the bottom looking up, it’s finally dawned on me that it’s not these invitations that have dug this hole. Rather, it’s the fact that I accepted them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accept","agree","agreement","bottom","choice","choices","choose","choosing","create","created","decisions","dig","dug","follow","following","fool","foolish","foolishness","gullibility","gullible","hole","holes","invitation","invitations","life","pit","realization","realize","rock-bottom","wisdom","wise"],"id":8006,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"First we form habits, then they form us.","author":"Mark Matteson","tags":["a-thought","advice","habits","realization","us","what-forms-us"],"id":9027,"author_id":"Mark+Matteson"},{"text":"She realized that she had naïvely believed that the workings of the world revolved around her and her family. Never before had she acknowledged that somebody else’s life might alter hers.","author":"David Anthony Durham","tags":["epiphanic-moment","loss-of-innocence","naivety","reality-of-life","realization"],"id":12599,"author_id":"David+Anthony+Durham"},{"text":"Our hearts bear a similarity with storerooms. We hold in them our trampled convictions, our fears, suppressed acts of valor, disappointments, enmity, anguish, secrets, things we wish we should have done, things we wish we shouldn’t have, regret.And continue piling them up with emotions, memories, conversations which did happen and conversations which didn’t, soured relationships and bitter people all of which we should have discarded, we keep it within until there is no space left, until the room is full, occupied after which we go on to lock it. Once in a while we happen to open the room and sight the dust accumulated all over, we relive each moment, each memory and each emotion again and soon fall upon the realization as to how deeply the room is in need of cleaning and so we clean it.We clean it so that we can fill it once more, hold it, bear it, relish it, heal from it and then finally let it go.","author":"Chirag Tulsiani","tags":["bear","conversation","conviction","disappointments","dust","fear","heal","heart","hold","let-go","memories","realization","room","storeroom","trampled","valor"],"id":12703,"author_id":"Chirag+Tulsiani"},{"text":"There is nothing like ‘within’ or ‘without.’ Both mean either the same thing or nothing.","author":"Ramana Maharshi","tags":["reality","realization"],"id":13493,"author_id":"Ramana+Maharshi"},{"text":"It will take just a simple realization to cause a big change!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["common-sense","deception","realities-of-life","realization","shift","small-things"],"id":14284,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"If it bothers you to see me when then stop looking.","author":"Victoria Barnes","tags":["love","realization","self-love"],"id":15778,"author_id":"Victoria+Barnes"},{"text":"I came to a most profound realization. For the first time in my life, I have complete control over what happens in the here and now. It is not a wish. It is not some concoction of false hope. It is reality in here and now.''HOPE- Season of Romance.","author":"Kaleb Kilton","tags":["control","here-and-now","realization","wish"],"id":18217,"author_id":"Kaleb+Kilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":300,"pages":30,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}