{"quotes":[{"text":"Just because everyone is behaving like a clown, it doesn’t mean you have to join the circus.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["be-yourself","behave","behaving","circus","clown","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","originality","road-less-travelled","stand-out"],"id":24898,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Stress-free moments certainly exist, but that is the extent of it. People, who have bought into the idea of a stress-free life, believe they should be happy and positive all the time. They have been sold a damaging falsehood. As the first sentence in M. 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