{"quotes":[{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["feelings","growth","learning","love","maturity","moments","nostalgia","relationships","romance","stages"],"id":19123,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["adulthood","branches","changes","cycles","death","destiny","evolution","family","fate","friends","growth","life","mature","neighbors","roots","senior","stages","tree","trees"],"id":30739,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Identify the sequence of stages that leads to turning your dreams into reality.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","dreams","identification","identity","lead","purpose","reality","sequence","stages","turn"],"id":51899,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.","author":"Elisabeth Elliot","tags":["age","aging","christian","god","inspirational","jesus","old","stages","youth"],"id":63418,"author_id":"Elisabeth+Elliot"},{"text":"Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["beauty","contents","contribution","creation","death","eternal","eternal-life","forever","history","immortality","inspiration","life","love","stages","time"],"id":74872,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","awakening","becoming","changes","changing","day","ego","egoism","egotism","evolving","existence","gracious","growing","immaterial","life","lifestyle","material","materialistic","matter","perspective","philosophy","poet","real","seasons","spirituality","stages","stuff","superficial","things","time","transform","transformations","transforming"],"id":90687,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"A creature doesn't move because it is a living thing, but because it knows what it can do with its life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["art-of-living","creature","development","doing-things","duty","food-for-thought","future","good-life","human-being","life","living-thing","michael-bassey-johnson","purpose","responsibilities","responsibility","stage","stages","talent","thinking","time","using-your-gift","vivid-life","work"],"id":188814,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The Industrial Revolution appears to be in its final stages and it will be remembered as a time where industrial stock markets were at historic highs at the same time that many natural processes were shutting down, including the next generation of humans.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["appears","down","environment","environmental","environmentalism","final","generation","highs","historic","humans","including","industrial","many","markets","natural","next","processes","remembered","revolution","same","shutting","stages","stock","time","will"],"id":333487,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and discouragement. Perhaps the fact that I can react with utter gloom to this is what keeps me from being psychotic and keeps me merely neurotic. I am doing quite a good day's work today. But I am also aware of the madness that actually sustains me, and I am not made more comfortable or happy by it.","author":"Patricia Highsmith","tags":["comfortable","depression","discouragement","fantasy","game","gloom","happy","madness","necessary","neuroses","neurotic","optimism","psychosis","psychotic","reason","rough","stages","sustain","work","writer","writing"],"id":362719,"author_id":"Patricia+Highsmith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}