{"quotes":[{"text":"It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["all-different","ancient-chinese-wisdom","beliefs","commandments","complicated-people","differences","diversity","flowers","fortune-cookie-advice","funny","gardening","ground-cover","guidelines","humor","life","messed-up-people","observations","observations-on-life","opinions","perspectives","religion","rules","speculations","truth","values","variations","viewing-things-different","way-of-life","wildflowers"],"id":217575,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice and by design.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["balance","calamity","cause-and-effect","chaos","choice","choices","decisions","harmony","opposition","options","stupidity","variations","variety","wisdom"],"id":235381,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"The critical nature of 'choices' -- [the] timing will prove to be an asset or liability; it will reward wisdom or expose stupidity. Either way, we learn from the path of suffering or satisfaction… by choice or by design.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["cause-and-effect","chaos","choice","choices","conflict","decisions","disharmony","emotional-control","harmony","immaturity","mature","options","separation","stupidity","time","timing","unification","variables","variations","variety","wisdom"],"id":263603,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}