{"quotes":[{"text":"Some people might enjoy drain water if they were told it was vodka.","author":"Flannery O'Connor","tags":["distraction","on-kissing","thought-provoking"],"id":184,"author_id":"Flannery+O%27Connor"},{"text":"We think we are so strong but it is only when others try to prey on our weaknesses that we realize how frail we truly are.”-Skyla (from Twiceborn).","author":"JP Robinson","tags":["christian-fiction","inspirational","love","power","strength","thought-provoking","weakness"],"id":1253,"author_id":"JP+Robinson"},{"text":"Dwell on positive thoughts!","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["imagination","positive-motivation","positive","positive-thought","thought-provoking","thoughts","thoughts-on-life","wisdom","wise","wise-words"],"id":1607,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beauty","blind","blindness","contemplation","inner-beauty","love","relationship","seeing","shallowness","thought-provoking","true-love","unconditional-love"],"id":2117,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present.","author":"Eoin Colfer","tags":["artemis-fowl","inspirational","thought-provoking"],"id":3413,"author_id":"Eoin+Colfer"},{"text":"COMMITMENT WITH WORK IS WORSHIP ATTITUDE BY EXPERTISM SPIRIT IN ALL HUMAN OFFICIAL DEALINGS IS LACKING AROUND IN THIS MODERN CENTURY GLOBE IN SPECIFIC IN YOUTH AND IN GENERAL IN ADULTS.IT IS A DANGEROUS SINGNAL FLASH AND ALARM BELL TO FUTURE WORLD GAME DRIVE.SO,BE READY TO PLUG-UP LOOP-HOLES IN TIME IF NOT?GOD WILL GIVE US A GRAND LESSION SLAP WHAT WE MODERN HUMANS NEED IN THIS CENTURY.","author":"Various","tags":["thought-provoking"],"id":4066,"author_id":"Various"},{"text":"Take that rose bush, for example. We are all looking at the same plant, but our perception of it varies according to the way we each think and see. One person may see a vigorous rose, another may see a rose that could benefit from a little pruning, and a third may see a mess that no amount of attention would save. The rose bush isn't changing; it's the way we personally perceive it that differs, the way each of us thinks that colors our perception.","author":"Sydney Banks","tags":["inspirational","thought-provoking"],"id":5678,"author_id":"Sydney+Banks"},{"text":"But we live in a karaoke society... Many people feel they have to dance to someone else's tune, to sing someone else's song.","author":"Francis Dewar","tags":["thought-provoking"],"id":5843,"author_id":"Francis+Dewar"},{"text":"Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adage","adages","adolescent","adolescents","adult","adulthood","adults","africa","african","ancient","aphorism","aphorisms","axiom","axioms","child","children","dead","death","deep","dependence","dependent","develop","developing","development","dictum","dictums","epigram","epigrams","existence","four-stages-of-life","funny","gnome","gnomes","grandparent","grandparents","grow","growing","growth","humor","humorous","humour","immortal","immortality","independence","independent","infant","infants","insightful","life","made-me-think","make-you-think","maxim","maxims","mortal","mortality","newborn","newborns","old","old-age","old-age-home","old-age-homes","phase","phases","philosopher","prepubescent","process","profound","proverb","proverbs","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","of-the-day","quotes","retire","retired","retiree","retirees","retirement","satire","satirical","satirist","satirists","saying","sayings","senile","senility","south-africa","south-african","stage","stages","stages-of-life","teenage","teenager","teenagers","thought-provoking","thoughtful","young","youth","youths"],"id":6452,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You’re more capable than you know. Deep down, you have… a magick inside you that you’ve tucked away. That needs release. It’s a connection to who you are and what you are capable of. - Evan.","author":"Mira Monroe","tags":["book","thought-provoking"],"id":7807,"author_id":"Mira+Monroe"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":539,"pages":54,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}