{"quotes":[{"text":"Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.","author":"A.A. Milne","tags":["eeyore","humor","piglet","river","wet"],"id":5758,"author_id":"A.A.+Milne"},{"text":"The Kalambo River and Waterfall exemplify life and afterlife: From birth at its source, the river twists and turns to overcome hurdles on its way to enhance the life of others before falling off the edge in death to flow quietly into Lake Tanganyika, while it's mist rises to heaven, freed from the burden of the body of water that held it.","author":"Kamil Ali","tags":["ali","birth","death","dhuriya","initiates","journey","kalambo","kamil","river","tanganyika"],"id":6300,"author_id":"Kamil+Ali"},{"text":"I believe we inherit a great river of knowledge, a flow of patterns coming from many sources. The information that comes from deep in the evolutionary past we call genetics. The information passed along from hundreds of years ago we call culture. The information passed along from decades ago we call family, and the information offered months ago we call education. But it is all information that flows through us. The brain is adapted to the river of knowledge and exists only as a creature in that river. Our thoughts are profoundly molded by this long historic flow, and none of us exists, self-made, in isolation from it.","author":"David Brooks","tags":["genetics","information","knowledge","river"],"id":8964,"author_id":"David+Brooks"},{"text":"A night of exhilaration, of boredom and terror, in which the merest of sounds took on other forms - grew large in the expanse of darkness. After several hours the sheep gradually stopped calling to each other from accross the river banks, and a brittle quiet descended. I desperately wanted to walk down to the water's edge. To see the black river in the moonlight. But a mixture of reason and fear kept me locked along the safe paths high above.","author":"Richard Skelton","tags":["affraid","aloneness","landings","night","poetry","river"],"id":9757,"author_id":"Richard+Skelton"},{"text":"The wise are like a river; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["going-forward","guru","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","making-progress","matshona-dhliwayo","motivation","motivational","motivational","motivational","motivational-for-women","progress","river","sage","success","wisdom","wisdom","wisdom","wise","wise"],"id":13740,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"You cannot step into the same river twice.","author":"Heraclitus","tags":["river","step","you "],"id":15515,"author_id":"Heraclitus"},{"text":"The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham","tags":["famous","lake","life","meaning","razor-s-edge","ripple","river","stone","surface","water"],"id":15682,"author_id":"W.+Somerset+Maugham"},{"text":"THE FOUR HEAVENLY FOUNTAINSLaugh, I tell youAnd you will turn backThe hands of time.Smile, I tell youAnd you will reflectThe face of the divine.Sing, I tell youAnd all the angels will sing with you!Cry, I tell youAnd the reflections found in your pool of tears -Will remind you of the lessons of today and yesterdayTo guide you through the fears of tomorrow.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["age","aging","angel","angels","aspiration","attitude","clock","cry","crying","divine","elder","elderly","enjoy","face","failure","fear","fears","fountains","future","god","god-streams","growing-old","hands-of-time","heaven","heavenly","inspiration","lake","laugh","laughing","laughter","life","life-abd-living","life-philosophy","living","living-in-the-present","living-life","living-well","old","past","play","playing","pond","pool","positive","present","reflect","reflection","river","senior","sing","singing","smile","smiling","social","stream","tear","tears","time","today","tomorrow","years","yesterday","young","youth"],"id":16573,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"The river this November afternoonRests in an equipoise of sun and cloud:A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroudIts passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.","author":"Cecil Day-Lewis","tags":["autumn","fall","november","river","rivers","the-double-vision"],"id":26902,"author_id":"Cecil+Day-Lewis"},{"text":"Ultima came to stay with us the summer I was almost seven. When she came the beauty of the llano unfolded before my eyes, and the gurgling waters of the river sang to the hum of the turning earth. The magical time of childhood stood still, and the pulse of the living earth pressed its mystery into my living blood.","author":"Rudolfo Anaya","tags":["anaya","beauty","bless","childhood","llano","me","mystery","river","rudolfo","ultima"],"id":27697,"author_id":"Rudolfo+Anaya"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":191,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}