{"quotes":[{"text":"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","answer","ask","begin","better","betterment","compassion","compassionate","condition","conversations","converse","empathy","friend","friendship","good","hear","improvement","judge","judgement","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","know","knowledge","kojouri","listen","listener","love","love","lover","mindful","mindfulness","ourselves","quote","quotes","reply","reserve","respond","self","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","sincerely"],"id":1026,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Work. Good, honest work, whether it’s working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul’s true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["art","artwork","awareness","congruence","consciousness","create","divine","divinity","effort","experience","feeling","flow","good","hands","honest","intent","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","labor","manual-labor","mindfulness","moment","origin","physical","play","power-of-now","prerequisite","present","quote","requirement","sincere","sincerely","soul","transcend","transcendence","universe","work"],"id":36833,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.","author":"Lionel Trilling","tags":["art","authenticity","criticism","entertainment","genuine","sincerely","social-convention","social-norms","sociology"],"id":59179,"author_id":"Lionel+Trilling"},{"text":"Most sane human beings’ chances of being alive in a thousand years’ time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","consistency","consistent","crazy","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","fake","gnome","gnomes","happiness","happy","humor","humour","immortality","insane","insanity","insightful","mad","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortality","pretend","pretense","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","sad","sane","sanity","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerely","thought-provoking","thoughtful","unhappiness","unhappy"],"id":100573,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Before We BeginIs Your Bug A nice clean original car that looks almost like itleft the showroom yesterday?P.S. All work should be carried out in consultation with a reliable workshop manual with regard to torque settings, gaps, procedures, sequences disassembly, reassembly, where to hide the leftover parts, etc. I will accept no responsibility for anything resulting fromyou or anybody else trying anything as described in this document whatsoever – but if it works or you end up with some amusing stories to tell someone else’s grandchildren, please feel free to drop me a line. (No death threats please.)Sincerely,Christina Engela.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["amusing","as","before","begin","but","consultation","described","disassembly","else-s","for","from","gaps","grandchildren","in","is","it","left","leftover","line","looks","manual","me","p-s","parts","please","procedures","reassembly","responsibility","settings","sincerely","some","that","whatsoever","workshop","yesterday","you"],"id":201161,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"What alarms me most is the fact that, even when God has now raised up a voice to speak on these issues, many sincerely believe that I am in error or at worst that I am doing something utterly wrong.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["alarms","am","at","believe","doing","error","even","fact","god","has","i","is","issues","many","me","most","now","raised","sincerely","something","speak","that","these","utterly","voice","what","when","worst","wrong"],"id":261308,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","aphorism","aphorisms","arrogance","arrogant","axiom","axioms","belief","beliefs","believe","deep","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","gnome","gnomes","humble","humility","humor","humour","importance","important","insightful","life","life-goes-on","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","modest","modesty","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","really","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerely","thought-provoking","thoughtful","truly"],"id":299516,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-truthful","dating","enjoy","enjoy-love","enjoyment","entertain","entertainment","flavor","flavour","food-for-thought","genuine","honest","honesty","i-love-you","israelmore-ayivor","love","lovers","maintain","marriage","marry","relationship","sincere","sincerely","tell-the-truth","true","truthful","truthfulness"],"id":312887,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["all-there","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","around-the-bend","avoid","balanced","bananas","batty","bonkers","bushed","certifiable","compos-mentis","conscious","consciously","cracked","crackers","crazed","crazy","cuckoo","demented","depress","depressed","depressing","depression","deranged","disturbed","escape","evade","evasion","faculties","funny","humor","humour","in-one-s-right-mind","insane","insanity","joke","jokes","limit","limitation","loco","loony","loopy","lucid","lucidity","mad","mad-as-a-hatter","mental-health","mentally-disordered","mentally-ill","mind","non-compos-mentis","normal","not-all-there","number","number-of-people","nuts","of-sound-mind","of-unsound-mind","off-one-s-rocker","out-of-one-s-mind","out-of-one-s-tree","pretend","pretense","psycho","psychotic","rational","rationality","reason","sane","saneness","sanity","satire","schizophrenic","screwy","sense","sincere","sincerely","stability","stable","stark-raving-mad","suicidal","suicide","sympathetic","sympathy","together","unbalanced","unconscious","unconsciously","unhinged","unstable","unsympathetic","wacko","wits"],"id":317300,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","advantage","africa","african","ambition","ambitious","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","benefit","benefits","deceive","deception","deep","dictum","dictums","envious","envy","epigram","epigrams","fake","funny","gnome","gnomes","happiness","happy","humor","humorous","humour","insightful","jealous","jealousy","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","philosopher","pretend","pretended","pretending","pretense","profit","profiting","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","satire","satirical","saying","sayings","sincere","sincerely","south-africa","south-african","succeed","success","successful","thought-provoking","thoughtful","unhappiness","unhappy"],"id":383624,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}