{"quotes":[{"text":"You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wasted on a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhapscan’t.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["christianity","cs-lewis","desire","grief","striving","success"],"id":12342,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"If a little hill of happiness would satisfy Chris, good for him. Butafter all these years of striving, hoping, dreaming, longing-I wanted amountain high! A hill wasn't enough.","author":"V.C. Andrews","tags":["dreaming","dreams","happiness","hill","hoping","longing","mountain","mountains","satisfy","striving"],"id":28396,"author_id":"V.C.+Andrews"},{"text":"You can’t see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. You can’t, in most things, get what you want if you want it too desperately: anyway, you can’t get the best out of it. ‘Now! Let’s have a real good talk’ reduces everyone to silence. ‘I must get a good sleep tonight’ ushers in hours of wakefulness. Delicious drinks are wastedon a really ravenous thirst. Is it similarly the very intensity of the longing that draws the iron curtain, that makes us feel we are staring into a vacuum when we think about our dead? ‘Them as asks’ (at any rate ‘as asks too importunately’) don’t get. Perhaps can’t.","author":"C.S. Lewis","tags":["christianity","cs-lewis","desire","striving","success"],"id":30482,"author_id":"C.S.+Lewis"},{"text":"The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.","author":"Roy T. Bennett","tags":["accomplishments","big-dreams","chances","choices","comfort-zone","dream","dreams","dreams","goals","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational-attitude","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspire","inspiring","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life","living","mind","motivation","motivational","optimism","optimistic","plans","positive","positive-affirmation","positive-life","positive-thinking","procrastination","striving","success","success","talents"],"id":38093,"author_id":"Roy+T.+Bennett"},{"text":"...Adopt the 'practice makes progress' approach.","author":"Mark Hawthorne","tags":["changing","doing-one-s-best","goals","perfection","progressing","striving"],"id":51184,"author_id":"Mark+Hawthorne"},{"text":"One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.","author":"Irene Hunt","tags":["climbing","journey","life","pursuit","striving"],"id":84584,"author_id":"Irene+Hunt"},{"text":"A kind of memory that tells usthat what we're now striving for was oncenearer and truer and attached to uswith infinite tenderness. Here all is distance,there it was breath. After the first  homethe second one seems draughty and  strangely sexed.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["home","memory","striving"],"id":106940,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"},{"text":"Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect of satisfaction, but immediately they turn an introspective eye and ask, ‘Am I happy?’ and at once from their innermost being a voice answers distinctly, ‘No, you are as poor and as miserable as before.' Then they think it was the object that deceived them and turn precipitately to another. But the second holds as little satisfaction as the first…Wandering then through life restless and tormented, at each successive station they think that happiness dwells at the next, but when they reach it happiness is no longer there. In whatever position they may find themselves there is always another one which they discern from afar, and which but to touch, they think, is to find the wished delight, but when the goal is reached discontent has followed on the way stands in haunting constancy before them.","author":"Johann Gottlieb Fichte","tags":["happiness","hedonism","misery","striving"],"id":113167,"author_id":"Johann+Gottlieb+Fichte"},{"text":"In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.","author":"Adam Smith","tags":["excellence","morality","striving","virtue"],"id":113928,"author_id":"Adam+Smith"},{"text":"All striving comes from lack, from a dissatisfaction with one's condition, and is thus suffering as long as it is not satisfied; but no satisfaction is lasting; instead, it is only the beginning of a new striving. We see striving everywhere inhibited in many ways, struggling everywhere; and thus always suffering; there is no final goal of striving, and therefore no bounds or end to suffering.","author":"Arthur Schopenhauer","tags":["satisfaction","striving","suffering"],"id":114326,"author_id":"Arthur+Schopenhauer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}