{"quotes":[{"text":"His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.","author":"Hans Christian Andersen","tags":["beauty-self-image","confidence","image","swan"],"id":4418,"author_id":"Hans+Christian+Andersen"},{"text":"Every morningbefore the birds starttrilling me their stories,I give birth to a new lovethrough my same old heartwhen a lake’s placidityfinds life in the swans breathOnly for you...From the poem 'Only For You.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["birds","breath","heart","lake","love","love","love","lover","lovers","morning","poem","poetry","poetry","swan","swans","verse"],"id":48907,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"All art is the result of one’s having been in danger of having gone through an experience all the way to the end when no one can go any further. This is what it is like to be an artist – you are unsteady on the edge of life like a swan before an anxious launching of himself on the floods where he is gently caught.","author":"Edmund de Waal","tags":["art","artist","artistic-expression","swan"],"id":59810,"author_id":"Edmund+de+Waal"},{"text":"There's no need to curse God if you're an ugly duckling. He chooses those strong enough to endure it so that they can guide others who've felt the same.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beautiful","duckling","endure","gift","god","people","purpose","reason","strength","swan","ugly-duckling"],"id":102887,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","character","education","fake","intelligence","knowledge","learning","life","material","materialism","meditation","mindfulness","patience","pearls","philosophy","poet","poetry","spiritual","stupid","substance","superficial","superficiality","swan","swine","true","true-beauty","truth","wisdom","wise","words"],"id":152553,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I'm telling you, the gorgeous of the world can actually look pretty intimidating when they scowl. Imagine a snow-white swan with a scary tattoo holding a chain saw. There's just no way to really prepare for that.","author":"Jim Benton","tags":["chainsaw","funny","scary","scowl","swan","tattoo"],"id":171733,"author_id":"Jim+Benton"},{"text":"I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.","author":"Rufus Wainwright","tags":["beauty","death","looks","people","swan"],"id":172242,"author_id":"Rufus+Wainwright"},{"text":"...This refinement and delicacy were what Cale adored; but Cale had been beaten into shape, hammered in dreadful fires of fear and pain. How could she be with him for long? A secret part of Arbell had been searching for some time for a way to leave her lover—although she was unaware of this, it is only fair to record. And so as Cale waited for her to save him while he worked out a way of saving her, she had already chosen the bitter but reasonable path of the good, of the many over the one...","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["adore","arbell","bad","beat","bitter","cale","chosen","delicacy","dreadful","evil","fear","fire","god","good","hammered","hand","heart","hoffman","laft","love","lover","neck","pain","part","path","paul","reasonable","refinement","save","secret","shape","soul","swan","tomas","unaware"],"id":214101,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"},{"text":"If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.","author":"Timmothy Radman","tags":["animals","duck","humor","sounding-board","swan","ugly"],"id":246228,"author_id":"Timmothy+Radman"},{"text":"I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.” And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.","author":"Paul Hoffman","tags":["alabaster","arbell","bound","break","breath","breeze","cables","cale","cheek","cold","cool","frase","god","hair","hand","hoffman","left","love","message","neck","night","pain","paul","play","quote","shadow","skin","soft","soul","swan","terrible","threat","tomas","touch","warm"],"id":308470,"author_id":"Paul+Hoffman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":16,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}