{"quotes":[{"text":"The Lord doesn't always make our paths smooth sailing, but He does make it possible to rise above adversity.","author":"Dana Arcuri","tags":["adversity","courage","devotional","encouragement","faith","harvest-of-hope","hope","overcoming","paths-of-life","perseverance","trials-and-tribulations"],"id":22583,"author_id":"Dana+Arcuri"},{"text":"A rainbow earns its colors in the storm.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","challenges","color","hardship","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-for-women","inspirational-motivation","life","life","life-and-sayings","motivation","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","obstacles","overcome","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-fear","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming","rainbow","storm","storm","storms-of-life","trials-and-tribulations","trials","trouble","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":30838,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Life, is a chess game you win or loose, but just keep playing.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["forgiveness","happiness","inspirational","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","motivational","trials-and-tribulations"],"id":39758,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"It is impossible to graduate from the University of Life with no scars.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","challenges","life-lesson","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","life","life","life-and-sayings","life-inspirational","matshona-dhliwayo","obstacles","overcome","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-fear","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming","storm","storm","storms-of-life","trials-and-tribulations","trials","tribulation","university-of-life"],"id":43227,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"When the same lessons of life that taught them teaches you, you get a good understanding of what made them become who and what they became; you appreciate them better and you uphold the dignity of their integrity in high esteem!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["criticism","critics","experience","founding-fathers","great-men-and-women","judging-others","trials-and-tribulations"],"id":44190,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.","author":"Solomon Northup","tags":["faith","god","prayer","religion","spirituality","stress","trials-and-tribulations","tribulations","worry"],"id":53254,"author_id":"Solomon+Northup"},{"text":"It is in deep waters that God teaches us to swim.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","challenges","god","greatness","hardship","potoi","success","swim","trials-and-temptations","trials-and-tribulations","trials-and-victories","trials","wildnerness"],"id":58409,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","brave","challenges","courage","faith","fear","fearless","fly","god","greatness","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-fear","overcoming-pain","overcoming","perseverance","persistence","resilience","rise-above","rise","spiritual","spiritual","spirituality","spread-your-wings","trials-and-tribulations","trials","trouble"],"id":58542,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"Endure, my heart; yea, a baser thing thou once didst bear.","author":"Homer","tags":["endurance","optimism","perspective","trials-and-tribulations"],"id":62356,"author_id":"Homer"},{"text":"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["adversity","affliction","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","austerity","be-determined","be-persistent","be-tenacious","carry-on","challenge","challenges","continue","deprivation","destitution","determination","difficult","difficulties","dire-straits","distress","doggedness","dream","dreamer","dreamers","endurance","entrepreneur","entrepreneurs","firmness","follow-through","funny","give-up","go-on","go-the-distance","hammer-away","hang-in-there","hang-on","hardship","hardships","hilarious","hold-on","humor","humorous","humour","impecuniousness","indefatigability","inspiration","inspire","intransigence","joke","jokes","keep-at-it","keep-going","keep-on","leave-no-stone-unturned","mental-strength","mentally-strong","misery","misfortune","motivate","motivation","need","neediness","never-give-up","not-take-no-for-an-answer","obduracy","obstinacy","pain","patience","penury","perseverance","persevere","persist","persistence","pertinacity","plod-on","plug-away","poverty","press-ahead","press-on","privation","problem","problems","purposefulness","quotations","quotes","resoluteness","resolution","resolve","satire","soldier-on","stamina","stand-fast","stand-firm","startup","startups","staunchness","stay-the-course","staying-power","steadfastness","stick-it-out","stoic","stoicism","stoics","stop-at-nothing","strength","strength-of-purpose","strong","struggle-on","stubbornness","suffer","suffering","tenacity","tirelessness","travails","trial","trials","trials-and-tribulations","tribulation","tribulations","trouble","venture-capitalist","venture-capitalists","want","wretchedness"],"id":63742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}