{"quotes":[{"text":"The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.","author":"W. Somerset Maugham","tags":["famous","lake","life","meaning","razor-s-edge","ripple","river","stone","surface","water"],"id":15682,"author_id":"W.+Somerset+Maugham"},{"text":"They say that wisdom is a dying flower, and I disagree. In a world covered in mud, the lotus still continues to grow. Even after mankind washes itself away from the surface of the earth, knowledge will still remain. Look no further than the bosom of Nature. It offers all the solutions needed to cure and unite humanity. Wise men only exist as interpreters and transmitters of Truth. Their time on earth is limited, but Nature's existence is eternal. Open books shall always exist for those with an opened eye and pure heart; for Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bookslotus","classroom","cure","dying","earth","eternal","eye","flower","grow","heart","humanity","intermitter","knowledge","mankind","mend","mud","nature","opened-eye","pure-heart","solutions","surface","third-eye","time","translator","transmitter","truth","unite","washes","wisdom","wise","wise-men","world"],"id":43122,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I don't want to swim on the surface anymore and I never want to pretend again that I know you completely. Let me dive deep inside you, take me in and allow me to look into your secrets, make me feel every breath I take and crave for it more . Carry me to your darker side where you are afraid to allowanyone. Pull me deep inside and make me one of your secrets.","author":"Akshay Vasu","tags":["complete","crave","dark","love","pretend","pull","secret","surface","swim"],"id":65274,"author_id":"Akshay+Vasu"},{"text":"The surface of learning is hearing what your ears aren't prepared to hear, and the core of learning is hearing what your ears don't want to hear.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["challenge","core","hearing","learning","preparation","surface","teaching"],"id":88256,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010).","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["attitude","beautiful","beautiful-heart","beauty","bitterness","exterior","external","inner-beauty","inner-love","interior","judge","life","love","measure","mirror","poetry","rate","self-love","surface","suzy-kassem","true","truth","truth-love","truthful","ugliness","ugly","wisdom"],"id":90633,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I figured out that I'm better off not explaining how and why I do the things that I do. If people can only read the surface of what you are, and that's all they want to see, let them see just what they need to see. Everything more is just something to keep and share only with the people that desire and are ready to receive that information. Words wasted on ears that do not listen and eyes that do not see are just seeds thrown on rocky ground. Prepare your ground first and then ask for the seeds.","author":"Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache","tags":["ask","desire","ears","explain","eyes","ground","how","information","listen","people","read","reading","receive","rocky","see","seeds","share","surface","things","why"],"id":93062,"author_id":"Virgil+Kalyana+Mittata+Iordache"},{"text":"People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.","author":"John Fowles","tags":["admit","beyond","black","dark","darkness","distracted","distraction","fused","good","goodness","grab","grabbing","happiness","happy","lights","people","scratch","see","spider","surface","web"],"id":108753,"author_id":"John+Fowles"},{"text":"He was like one of those pictures full of small errors, the kind you could only pick out by searching the image from every angle, and even then, a few always slipped by. On the surface, Eli seemed perfectly normal, but now and then Victor would catch a crack, a sideways glance, a moment when his roommate's face and his words, his look and his meaning, would not line up. Those fleeting slices fascinated Victor. It was like watching two people, one hiding in the other's skin. And their skin was always too dry, on the verge of cracking and showing the color of the thing beneath.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["angle","beneath","crack","dry","error","false","fascinate","fascination","find","glance","hide","hiding","lie","look","mask","normal","people","perfect","picture","search","skin","surface","thing","two","under"],"id":115944,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"From attraction and affectionCover of perfectionFailure beyond texture to a painful lessonEverything that was from the start wasn't from the heart.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["affection","attraction","breakup","broken-heart","deep","emotions","failure","heart","learning","lesson","love","lyrics","pain","perfection","poetry","relationship","rhyme","song","song-lyrics","song-lyrics-from-poets","surface"],"id":121672,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Alcohol is good at disinfecting things It can clean a surface or erase memories.","author":"Richard L. Ratliff","tags":["aa","alcohol","alcoholics-anonymous","clean","drink","drinking","drinking-alcohol","surface"],"id":123117,"author_id":"Richard+L.+Ratliff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}