{"quotes":[{"text":"Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person’s quest to attain self-realization.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["self-realization","self-realization","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality"],"id":4294,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Any good person who is motivated to attain awareness of the whole truth should follow the Universal Way to calm his mind and harmonize it with all aspects of life.","author":"Lao Tzu","tags":["harmony","personal-development","spiritual-development","truth","univeral-way"],"id":5770,"author_id":"Lao+Tzu"},{"text":"To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.","author":"Oscar Wilde","tags":["denial","life","soul","spiritual-development","truth"],"id":6734,"author_id":"Oscar+Wilde"},{"text":"The practice of cultivating altruism has a beneficial effect not only from the religious point of view but also from the mundane point of view, not only for long term spiritual development but even in terms of immediate rewards.","author":"Dalai Lama XIV","tags":["altruism","spiritual-development"],"id":8910,"author_id":"Dalai+Lama+XIV"},{"text":"It takes heart to battle great challenges, great faith to be victorious over them.","author":"Wayne Chirisa","tags":["achievement","achievers","achieving-dreams","belief","belief","believe-and-achieve","faith","faith","faith","inspirational","inspirational-life","inspiring","inspiring-words","motivation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","spiritual-development","spiritual-life","spiritual","spirituality","spirituality","success","success-in-business","success","successful-people","winning","winning-in-life","winning"],"id":10450,"author_id":"Wayne+Chirisa"},{"text":"I've known humans, and I know beasts. The beast is better. It is unpretentious. It kills for food. Humans do 'cause they're just not any good.","author":"Fakeer Ishavardas","tags":["animal-rights","animals-and-man","good-and-evil","healthy-living","human-nature","non-violence-and-humor","peace-on-earth","philosophy","spiritual-development","spirituality-of-imperfection","vegetarianism-ethics","wellness"],"id":15215,"author_id":"Fakeer+Ishavardas"},{"text":"(Bonhoeffer's) change was not an ungainly, embarrassing leap from which he would have to retreat slightly when he gained more maturity and perspective. It was by all accounts a deepening consistent with what had gone before.","author":"Eric Metaxas","tags":["continuity","discipleship","maturation","sovereignty-of-god","spiritual-development"],"id":26407,"author_id":"Eric+Metaxas"},{"text":"Rewards await you if you stay steadfast in your faith.","author":"Joel Osteen","tags":["inspirational","spiritual-development"],"id":27665,"author_id":"Joel+Osteen"},{"text":"We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We drown in the thick sweetness of our sensual excess, and our shameless opulence, while our discontent souls suffocate in the arid wasteland of spiritual deprivation.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["buying","consumer-culture","consumerism","consumption","deprivation","desert","despair","emptiness","excess","happiness","happiness-fulfillment-desire","material-possessions","material-world","materialism","materialism-versus-spiritualism","materialistic","materialistic-society","meaning-of-life","meaning-of-things","meaninglessness","modern-life","modern-society","money-happiness","money-not-happiness","nausea","nihilism","nihilistic","opulence","poverty","pursuit-of-happiness","self-inflicted-pain","soul-searching","soulless","spending","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality","suffocate","wastefulness","wasteland","wealth","wealth-and-virtues","wealth-of-soul"],"id":31931,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction.","author":"Amit Ray","tags":["each-new-morning","flow-of-love","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","light-of-happiness","morning","morning-prayer","morning","morning-star","morning-thoughts","spiritual-development","spiritual-growth","spiritual-wisdom","spirituality"],"id":35553,"author_id":"Amit+Ray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":162,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}