{"quotes":[{"text":"Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["action","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","inaction","life-lessons","life-q","life-and-sayings","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","simple-life","simplify","simplify-your-life","simplifying","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":9898,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"He toasted his bacon on a fork and caught the drops of fat on his bread; then he put the rasher on his thick slice of bread, and cut off chunks with a clasp-knife, poured his tea into his saucer, and was happy.","author":"D.H. Lawrence","tags":["food","happiness","simple-life"],"id":11939,"author_id":"D.H.+Lawrence"},{"text":"Living life with contentment is the greatest well-being.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian-life","comparison","contentment","envy","experience","faith","happiness","health","hope","joy","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","living","living-life","motivaiton","purposeful-living","simple-life","upliftmetn","well-being","words-of-wisdom"],"id":21289,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Contentment is joy of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["contentment","happiness","joy","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life-and-living","motivation","self-love","simple-life","simplicity","spiritual","wise-words"],"id":26245,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The complexity of your earthly array is not a guarantee for a truimphant eternity. The fact is that you need a simple life to go to heaven; not an excessively glittering body, shiny lips and charming face.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["beauty-is-vain","body","charming","charming-face","clean-heart","complex-life","eternal","eternal-life","eternity","everlasting-life","garden-of-eden","glitter","glittering","heaven","hell","holy","jesus-christ","life","lipstick","shiny-lips","simple","simple-life","sincere","soul","spirit","truimpant","truimpant-eternity","vanity"],"id":32733,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There had to be something wrong with my life. I should have been born a Yugoslavian shepherd who looked up at the Big Dipper every night.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["contentment","different-lives","discontentment","happiness","life","night","peace","sheppherd","simple-life","something-wrong","stars","zen"],"id":45511,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aesthetic","affection","companionship","companionship","food","food","fortitude","friendship","friendship","love","love","mind","mind-power","mindset","mindset-matters","mindsets","philosophy-of-life","pleasure","pleasure","pleasures-of-life","sensuous","simple-life","simple-life","spiritual-crisis","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-the-mind","thinking","thinking"],"id":45678,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am satisfying myself by building a little shop in the back of my mind, a place where stillness resides and a jangle of thoughts can come and visit. I am building a room of my own, a room that I can retreat to when needed, a place where I am always welcomed regardless of the trappings of this ordinary and finite life. I do not need much as far as earthy rewards, but I certainly will not spurn food, drink, companionship, love, affection, friendship, or other physical, emotional, spiritual, aesthetic, and sensuous pleasures that find their way to my humble doorstep.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["aesthetic","affection","companionship","companionship","food","food","fortitude","friendship","friendship","love","love","mind","mind-power","mindset","mindset-matters","mindsets","philosophy-of-life","pleasure","pleasure","pleasures-of-life","sensuous","simple-life","simple-life","spiritual-crisis","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-the-mind","thinking","thinking"],"id":45678,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreaming awake, until I was aroused by the boat touching the sand, and I arose to see what shore my fates had impelled me to; days when idleness was the most attractive and productive industry. Many a forenoon have I stolen away, preferring to spend thus the most valued part of the day; for I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days, and spent them lavishly; nor do I regret that I did not waste more of them in the workshop or the teacher's desk.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["idleness","nature","nature-s-beauty","simple-life","simple-living","solitude"],"id":51761,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["advice","attitude","belief","change","christian-life","co-existence","compassion","contentment","faith","forgiveness","happiness","hope","humanity","joy","lessons-learnt","living-life","love","marriage-life","motivational","peace","people","positive-thinking","positivity","self-centered","self-centeredness","simple-life","simple-living","uplifting","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":84781,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}