{"quotes":[{"text":"Resistance is a sign that shows you're going the right way.","author":"Constance Friday","tags":["affront","ambition","antagonism","antagonist","assert","attack","challenge","compete","competition","confront","destination","destiny","face","fight","fighting-spirit","life","obstacles","opponent","opposite","opposition","resist","resistance","survival","tackle"],"id":25967,"author_id":"Constance+Friday"},{"text":"If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.","author":"Francois de La Rochefoucauld","tags":["weakness","resist","than "],"id":25998,"author_id":"Francois+de+La+Rochefoucauld"},{"text":"When resistance closes the door against you, remember that persistence holds the key. Don't give up too early; insist to endure to the end... You will never regret it!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["do-it-again","dont-give-up","endurance","endure","food-for-thought","insist","israelmore-ayivor","key","never-give-up","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","regret","resist","resistance"],"id":33486,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.","author":"Timothy Snyder","tags":["choices","personal-is-political","politics","resist"],"id":46606,"author_id":"Timothy+Snyder"},{"text":"There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE FOUNDATION OF ALL BEING, is some powerful and reassuring and accessible image of OURSELVES... And that, more than any of their particular factual inaccuracies - is what bothers me the most about them. It is precisely the business of resisting that demand, it is precisely the business of approaching the world with open and authentic wonder, and with a sharp, cold eye, and singularly intent upon the truth, that's called science.","author":"David Z. Albert","tags":["authentic","conceit","human","impulse","philosophy","resist","science","truth","wonder","world"],"id":52322,"author_id":"David+Z.+Albert"},{"text":"Good self-esteem comes from positive self-imaging. Positive self-image make you to resist wrong definitions others give about you, guiding you to live life with enthusiasm and will!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["define","definitions","enthusiasm","enthusiastic","esteem","good","good-self-image","guide","guiding-you","image","israelmore-ayivor","low-self-esteem","passion","positive-self","positive-self-image","purpose","resist","self","self-esteem","self-image","self-imaging","self-improvement","visions","will","willing","wrong","wrong-definitions"],"id":52417,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"When you are unhappy, do not resist it! Let your unhappiness do its turn. After that the turn comes to the happiness!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["murat-ildan","resist","turkish-literature","turn","unhappiness","unhappiness","unhappiness","unhappy","your-turn"],"id":56952,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Is there anything else you haven't told me?'My head spun. So much had happened and we still needed to stop a powerful magician. Death was a real possibility. I needed Valek to know how I felt.'I love you'Valek wrapped me in his arms. 'My love has been yours since the fire festival. If those goons had killed you, I knew then that I would never be the same. I didn't want or expect this. But I couldn't resist you.","author":"Maria V. Snyder","tags":["death","feelings","love","resist","truth"],"id":65660,"author_id":"Maria+V.+Snyder"},{"text":"Conventional wisdom would have one believe that it is insane to resist this, the mightiest of empires, but what history really shows is that today's empire is tomorrow's ashes; that nothing lasts forever, and that to not resist is to acquiesce in your own oppression. The greatest form of sanity that anyone can exercise is to resist that force that is trying to repress, oppress, and fight down the human spirit.","author":"Mumia Abu-Jamal","tags":["america","emancipation","freedom","history","imperialism","oppression","resist","worldview"],"id":74110,"author_id":"Mumia+Abu-Jamal"},{"text":"Passion is that drive, that self-confidence, that enthusiasm that makes one to resist every obstacle that attempts to stop him from attaining his ultimate status in life and guides him to keep trying till the harvest time is due.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attain","confidence","drive","enthusiasm","enthusiastic","food-for-thought","guides","harvest","harvest-time","israelmore-ayivor","keep-trying","life","obstacle","passion","resist","resistance","self-confidence","status","ultimate"],"id":75027,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}