{"quotes":[{"text":"What makes your life rainy or sunny is your attitude towards life, not the attitude of life towards you!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["attitude","attitude-toward-life","attitude-towards-life","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","life-attitude","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","rainy","sunny","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":24788,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Strange combination, isn't it--gratitude and resentment? But this is the way I think. Actually, I think everybody thinks that way. Even the children of the humans who died long ago, I think they lived their lives holding similar contradictory thoughts about their parents. They were raised to learn about love and death, and they lived out their lives passing from the sunny spots to the shady spots of this world.","author":"Otsuichi","tags":["children","contradictions","contradictory","death","epiphany","gratitude","human-nature","humanity","insight","love","love-and-death","love-and-loss","parents","parents-and-children","resentment","spots","sunny","world"],"id":48360,"author_id":"Otsuichi"},{"text":"Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appearance","appearances","as-happy-as-a-clam","beaming","beatific","blissful","blithe","buoyant","carefree","cheerful","cheery","chirpy","content","contented","deceive","deception","delighted","ecstatic","elated","euphoric","exhilarated","exultant","first-impression","first-impressions","funny","gleeful","gratified","grinning","happiness","happy","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","impression","impressions","in-a-good-mood","in-good-spirits","in-seventh-heaven","jocular","jocund","joke","jokes","jolly","jovial","joy","joyful","joyous","jubilant","jumping-for-joy","lighthearted","looks","merry","on-a-high","on-cloud-nine","on-top-of-the-world","over-the-moon","overjoyed","pleased","pretend","pretense","radiant","rapturous","satire","satisfied","smiling","sunny","thrilled","tickled-pink","unhappiness","unhappy","untroubled","walking-on-air"],"id":120243,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"That most pleasant weather to feel is the one never felt.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beautiful-weather","bliss","cool","cool-weather","disturbance","forecast","ignorance-is-bliss","peacefulness","perfect-weather","pleasant","sunny","sunshine","unnoticed","warm","warm-weather","weather"],"id":132449,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Become like the sun. If you do so, all darkness will be dispelled. No matter what happens, live confidently with the conviction that you, yourself are the “sun.” Of course, in life there are sunny days and cloudy days. But even on cloudy days, the sun is still there. Even when you are suffering, it is vital that you strive to keep the sun shining brightly in your heart.","author":"Daisaku Ikeda","tags":["bright","cloudy","happy","inspirational","shine","strength","sun","sunny"],"id":160065,"author_id":"Daisaku+Ikeda"},{"text":"A shady business never yields a sunny life.","author":"B. C. Forbes","tags":["life","sunny","never "],"id":160399,"author_id":"B.+C.+Forbes"},{"text":"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.","author":"Carlos Ruiz Zafón","tags":["1945","ashen-skies","barcelona","carlos-ruiz-zafon","cemetery-of-forgotten-books","daniel-sempere","dawn","memories","rambla-de-santa-monica","summer","sunny","the-shadow-of-the-wind"],"id":197835,"author_id":"Carlos+Ruiz+Zaf%C3%B3n"},{"text":"They pine for the hip, frosty girlfriend they abandoned for a pleasant if unexciting marriage to her sunnier, less mentally present sister coast.","author":"Sari Botton","tags":["brooklyn","cold","cool","frosty","hip","los-angeles","new-york-city","sunny","warm"],"id":245918,"author_id":"Sari+Botton"},{"text":"Kodachrome... It gives us those nice, bright colors,gives us the greens of summers,makes ya think all the world's a sunny day,Oh yeah!I've got a Nikon camera, I'd love to take a photograph,so mama don't take...My Kodachrome away...","author":"Paul Simon","tags":["bright","celluloid","cheerful","digital","eastman-kodak","ektachrome","film","film-vs-digital","fun","future","green","hippie","joy-of-life","kodachrome","kodak","mama","mother","nikon","nostalgia","old-school","photograph","photography","retro","summer","sunny","teen"],"id":255649,"author_id":"Paul+Simon"},{"text":"By nature, I really am a fairly bouncy and sunny individual.","author":"Julie Andrews","tags":["individual","sunny","fairly "],"id":261416,"author_id":"Julie+Andrews"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}