{"quotes":[{"text":"Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. 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Once you realise this, you can claim it back.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["afraid","aware","awareness","claim","conscious","consciousness","defenceless","defenseless","fear","fear","fearful","hope","hopeless","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","object","power","power","powerful","powerless","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","scared","scary","strong","understand","weak"],"id":251023,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.","author":"Andrew Wilson","tags":["afraid","asperger-s","asperger-s-syndrome","aspergers","aspergers-syndrome","autism","check-out","decision","decisions","fear","glasses","jump","jumped","money","noise","overwhelmed","panic","people","quickly","recognise","sensory-stimulation","shopping","stuff","supermarket","touch","wallet"],"id":268429,"author_id":"Andrew+Wilson"},{"text":"Kamand, die every dayso you rememberto live.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["adage","alive","aliveness","aphorism","aware","awareness","carpe-diem","consciousness","death","die","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","life-philosophy","live","living","maxim","moment","motto","now","philosophy","poem","power-of-now","present","present-moment","quote","realisation","realise","recognise","remember","seize","short-poem","surrender","truth"],"id":297575,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Do not avert your eyes.It is important that you see this.It is important that you feelthis.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["acknowledge","animals","art","artist","atrocity","avert","awaken","awakening","aware","awareness","comprehend","conscious","consciousness","corrupt","corruption","country","deforestation","disease","extinction","eyes","famine","feel","flood","gaze","genocide","global-warming","grasp","homelessness","human","humanity","humanness","hunger","important","kamand","kamand-kojouri","know","kojouri","look","look-away","media","nation","nature","news","notice","perceive","perception","perspective","politics","poverty","present","realise","realize","recognise","recognize","see","stare","starvation","transcend","transform","transformation","understand","violence","war"],"id":299492,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["action","adage","advertisement","alliterations","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","book-writing","catch-lines","catchphrases","chance","characters","creative-writing","diagnosis","entrepreneur","entrepreneurship","essay","failure","hard-work","identify","inspirational","keep-trying","knowledge","lose","loser","losing","losing-an-opportunity","luck","motivational","movie","movie-dialogue","novel-writing","opportunity","persistence","philosophy","proverbs","public-speaking","quotes","recognise","recognize","rhetoric","script","script-writing","scriptwriting","speech","speechwriting","startup","story","success","tag-lines","taking-action","taking-chances","taking-risk","try","trying","wisdom","writing"],"id":338062,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}