{"quotes":[{"text":"A good relationship is not a refuge from your problems, but an oasis where you can grow better as a person.","author":"Shon Mehta","tags":["oasis","refuge","relationship"],"id":288,"author_id":"Shon+Mehta"},{"text":"Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["alibi","creativity","escapade","escape","escapee","freelance","freelancer","great-mind","intellect","michael-bassey-johnson","pen","publishing","random-thought","refuge","scribble","writer","writers","writing"],"id":3125,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"People will let you down in this business every single day. I think you'll be let down and disappointed more than you'll be accepted and excited. But you need to find ways to keep yourself inspired. This is mine. What's yours?","author":"Jenna Mullins","tags":["disappointed","disappointment","inspiration","inspirational","jenna","jenna-mullins","motivation","motivational","mullins","refuge","rules","rules-of-seduction","seduction"],"id":9281,"author_id":"Jenna+Mullins"},{"text":"When the world caves inStill my hope will clingTo Your promiseWhere my courage endsLet my heart find strengthIn Your presence.","author":"Hillsong","tags":["divine","favour","god","heart","heavenly","holy","hope","inspirational","jesus","life","love","promise","refuge"],"id":11648,"author_id":"Hillsong"},{"text":"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.","author":"Samuel Johnson","tags":["last","refuge","scoundrel "],"id":13418,"author_id":"Samuel+Johnson"},{"text":"A human being can only endure depression up to a certain point; when this point of saturation is reached it becomes necessary for him to discover some element of pleasure, no matter how humble or on how low a level, in his environment if he is to go on living at all. In my case these insignificant birds with their subdued colourings have provided just sufficient distraction to keep me from total despair. Each day I find myself spending longer and longer at the window watching their flights, their quarrels, their mouse-quick flutterings, their miniature feuds and alliances. Curiously enough, it is only when I am standing in front of the window that I feel any sense of security. While I am watching the birds I believe that I am comparatively immune from the assaults of life. The very indifference to humanity of these wild creatures affords me a certain safeguard. Where all else is dangerous, hostile and liable to inflict pain, they alone can do me no injury because, probably, they are not even aware of my existence. The birds are at once my refuge and my relaxation.","author":"Anna Kavan","tags":["birds","depression","despair","distraction","refuge","relaxation","security"],"id":16103,"author_id":"Anna+Kavan"},{"text":"Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.","author":"Wayne Cordeiro","tags":["isolation","jesus-christ","pastor","pastoral","pastoral-ministry","refuge","solitude"],"id":19380,"author_id":"Wayne+Cordeiro"},{"text":"My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the winds rip and hear the tempest tear, yet despite the ferocity of the tumult I rest in such a sublime peace it is as if neither existed at all. And if I have not yet found such a place, it is because I have not yet found God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calm","fear","fortress","god","obstacles","peace","refuge","rest","safety","security","solace","storm","trials","tumult","winds"],"id":20116,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"From my spirit's gray defeat, From my pulse's flagging beat, From my hopes that turned to sand Sifting through my close-clenched hand, From my own fault's slavery, If I can sing, I still am free.For with my singing I can make A refuge for my spirit's sake, A house of shining words, to be My fragile immortality.","author":"Sara Teasdale","tags":["immortality","refuge","sing","spirit"],"id":23662,"author_id":"Sara+Teasdale"},{"text":"We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.","author":"James Michael Pratt","tags":["hope","light","lighthouse","refuge","truth"],"id":28512,"author_id":"James+Michael+Pratt"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":51,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}