{"quotes":[{"text":"When you see a child starving and you think government failed. But I think God failed , could not even fill the hunger of a child.","author":"John Art","tags":["child","failed","god","goverment","hunger","starving"],"id":59133,"author_id":"John+Art"},{"text":"The world is starving for original and decisive leadership.","author":"Bryant H. McGill","tags":["world","original","starving "],"id":92017,"author_id":"Bryant+H.+McGill"},{"text":"How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!","author":"Ray Bradbury","tags":["atomic","bombs","books","cave","classism","forgotten","fun","hate","history","history-repeating-itself","ignorance","mistakes","poor","rich","starving","uncaring","war"],"id":93822,"author_id":"Ray+Bradbury"},{"text":"From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["art","artists","human-nature","imperfections","mistakes","perfect","poverty","prosperity","rags","rags-to-riches","recovery","riches","riches-to-rags","starving","starving-artist","struggle","suffering","symbolism"],"id":116313,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.","author":"Kate Wicker","tags":["body-image","eating-disoders","hunger","longing","soul","starving"],"id":128412,"author_id":"Kate+Wicker"},{"text":"When the average American says, “I’m starving,” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.","author":"Carolyn Custis James","tags":["american","food","hunger","starving"],"id":154822,"author_id":"Carolyn+Custis+James"},{"text":"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness.","author":"Rohinton Mistry","tags":["kindness","poverty","sadness","starve","starving"],"id":172564,"author_id":"Rohinton+Mistry"},{"text":"This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn't necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.All in vain. All wasted.The older the world becomes, the more obvious it is. The bomb and the tortures in Algeria and the starving babies in the Congo. It gets bigger and darker.More and more suffering for more and more. And more and more in vain.","author":"John Fowles","tags":["birth","birthing","bomb","dark","necessary","nothing","obvious","older","pain","starving","suffering","terrible","torture","vain","waste","wasted","world"],"id":189189,"author_id":"John+Fowles"},{"text":"Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud,but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hoursjust wanting to make it through the day.There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got throughand the sky was so blue I couldn’t look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories,but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desktick tick tickme not making a soundand some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind,but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine.This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely waysbut you can not let it.I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. The smoking and the starving, the running, the madness,thinking it will help but it only feeds the fireand I don't want to hurt myself anymore.I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me—little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. It will always be spring again.And there will always be a new day.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["a-new-day","alcohol","anxiety","art","balance","be-okay","chest","coffee","crying","drinking","ed","fine","flowers","focus","grateful","gratitude","happiness","hope","hopeful","hopeless","hurt","inspiration","joy","lovely","lovers","madness","mental-health","music","new-day","okay","panic","panic-attack","panic-attacks","park","recovery","sad","sadness","self-destruction","self-harm","sing","singing","sky","smoking","songs","sound","spring","starving","tears","walking","well-being","wellness"],"id":234210,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Anger as soon as fed is dead- 'Tis starving makes it fat. ","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["anger","dead","fat","fed","starving"],"id":242524,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}