{"quotes":[{"text":"When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.","author":"Nelson Mandela","tags":["lawyer","me","strangers "],"id":1135,"author_id":"Nelson+Mandela"},{"text":"How queer it was for two lovers to suddenly turn into strangers?","author":"Diyar Harraz","tags":["history","love","lovers","past","strangers"],"id":1820,"author_id":"Diyar+Harraz"},{"text":"You areas fleetingly beautifulas a mother’s tearsand a father’s pranksa brother’s bachelorhoodand a best friend’s bad mooda bride’s glittering jittersand a handsome stranger’s smile.","author":"Sanober Khan","tags":["bachelorhood","bad-mood","beautiful","best-friends","bride","father","fleeting","fleeting-life","glittering","handsome","moments","mother","poetry","poetry","smile","strangers"],"id":5325,"author_id":"Sanober+Khan"},{"text":"Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["relationships","strangers"],"id":5514,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Stop changing yourself for the sake of other people. You shouldn't care what strangers think and true friends won't ask you to change.","author":"Avina Celeste","tags":["change","friends","inspirational","motivational","strangers"],"id":5889,"author_id":"Avina+Celeste"},{"text":"No one says: when my family treated me as a stranger, I preferred the company of strangers, and I walked among strangers and what did I find but God in every one of their faces.","author":"Joanna Brooks","tags":["faith","god","mormonism","strangers"],"id":7982,"author_id":"Joanna+Brooks"},{"text":"Spiritual love is when you see new faces as the oldest.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["adapt","adaptation","face","faces","foreign","love","old","oldest","sacred","spiritual-love","strange","stranger","strangers","true-love","unusual","weird"],"id":16393,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Henry had written a novel because there was a hole in him that needed filling, a question that needed answering, a patch of canvas that needed painting—that blend of anxiety, curiosity and joy that is at the origin of art—and he had filled the hole, answered the question, splashed colour on the canvas, all done for himself, because he had to. Then complete strangers told him that his book had filled a hole in them, had answered a question, had brought colour to their lives. The comfort of strangers, be it a smile, a pat on the shoulder or a word of praise, is truly a comfort.","author":"Yann Martel","tags":["art","book","creativity","curiosity","inspirational","joy","life","painting","strangers","writer","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":21265,"author_id":"Yann+Martel"},{"text":"And now, for something completely the same:Wasted time and wasted breath,'s what I'll make, until my death.Helping people 'd be as good,but I wouldn't, if I could.For the few that help deserve,have no need, or not the nerve,help from strangers to accept,plus from mine a few have wept.Wept from joy, or from despair,or just from my vengeful stare.Ways I have, to look at stupid,make them see I am not Cupid.Make them see they are in error,for of truth I am a bearer.Most decide I'm just a bear,mauling at them, - like I care.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["acceptance","bear","bears","breath","breathing","caring","cupid","deciding","decision","decisions","deserve","deserving","despair","difference","different","erroneous","error","errors","good","helping","joy","mauling","mistake","mistakes","nerve","nerves","nothing","others","people","poem","poems","refusal","strange","stranger","strangers","stupid","tears","truth","vengeance","vengeful","waste","wasted","wasted-time","weeping"],"id":22661,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Dr. Morris soon recognized that the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages can often be traced to how well couples are able to 'bond' during the courtship period. By bonding he referred to the process by which a man and woman become cemented together emotionally. It describes the chemistry that permits two previous strangers to become intensely valuable to one another. It helps them weather the storms of life and remain committed in sickness and health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others until they are parted in death. It is a phenomenal experience that almost defies description.","author":"James C. Dobson","tags":["become","better","bond","cemented","chemistry","committed","couples","courtship","death","defies","description","dr-morris","emotionally","experience","forsaking","health","help","intensely","life","man","marriage","marriage-vows","one-another","or","parted","permits","phenomenal","poorer","process","remain","richer","sickness","storm","strangers","successful","together","two","unsuccessful","valuable","weather","woman","worse"],"id":24488,"author_id":"James+C.+Dobson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":154,"pages":16,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}