{"quotes":[{"text":"Bigwig: 'I can't think why he didn't convince Threarah.'Hazel: 'Because Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.","author":"Richard Adams","tags":["innovation","poor-leadership","stagnant","stubbornness"],"id":24785,"author_id":"Richard+Adams"},{"text":"The less you move on the groundthe more the world moves around.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["change-the-world","change-your-life","changes","changing-the-world","dao","energy","keep-changing","keep-going","keep-learning","keep-moving-forward","keep-trying","keeping-faith","moving-forward","moving-on","moving-on-and-letting-go","physical","physical-activity","physical-health","physics","spiritual","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom","stages-of-life","stagnant","stagnation","tao","world"],"id":26535,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.","author":"John Mason Good","tags":["stagnant","activity","pool "],"id":34990,"author_id":"John+Mason+Good"},{"text":"Many times, the thought of fear itself is greater than what it is we fear.","author":"Idowu Koyenikan","tags":["fear","fear-of-death","fear-of-failure","fear-of-unknown","fear","fearful","fearless","fearless","fearlessness","fears","inaction","stagnant","stagnation"],"id":52448,"author_id":"Idowu+Koyenikan"},{"text":"Comfort...Was the key ingredient to making the prisoner crave the prison.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["apathy","comfort-is-a-prison","comfort-zone","craving","liberation","malaise","self-doubt","self-growth","self-imprisonment","spiritual-insights","stagnant","unrealized-potential"],"id":69929,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"Perhaps the only reason why you worry in life, tarry your goals and bury your joy is that you are still bearing the untold story of you untouched, which seems to bang on the doors of your heart every time! Go and open the way, and fulfill your destiny!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bang","bear","bearing","delay","destiny","doors","food-for-thought","fulfill","fulfillment","goals","heart","israelmore-ayivor","life","my-heart","open-the-door","procrastinate","procrastination","purpose","purpose-of-life","reason","stagnant","stagnation","success","tarry","untold-story","worry"],"id":81210,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We've always done it this way' is invalid when that way hasn't led to more life, greater growth, or maximum efficiency. Take that how you will...Business, personally, church, or family. Complacency is too easy to breed, and already has one foot in the grave.","author":"Aaron W. Matthews","tags":["complacency","complacent","dying","stagnant","traditionalism"],"id":96106,"author_id":"Aaron+W.+Matthews"},{"text":"Your current situation = the life expectations you have accepted as completed, unless you change your comfort zone to create a better life.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adventure","attitude","become-better","best-life","big-dreams","choices","creative-life","decisions","destiny","dreams","fate","goals","happiness","inspirational-life","joy","legacy","live","live-for-a-legacy","live-joyfully","living-life-for-goals","motivation","now","stagnant","strive","success"],"id":130232,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Freedom begins in the mind of the individual. You'll never be able to do a particular thing if you don't navigate your thoughts positively. Complaining and neglecting to take action creates stagnation. Free your mind and the rest will follow.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["faith","freedom","happiness","hope","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","joy","life","love","people","philosophy","positive-words","quotes","to-live-by","self","stagnant","truth","words-of-wisdom","words-to-live-by"],"id":201078,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"We sometimes hear of the death of literature or of this or that genre, but literature doesn't die, just as it doesn't 'progress' or 'decay.' It expands, it increases. When we feel that it has become stagnant or stale, that usually just means we ourselves are not paying sufficient attention.","author":"Thomas C. Foster","tags":["attention","death-of-literature","literature","progress","stagnant"],"id":206781,"author_id":"Thomas+C.+Foster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}