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Then we step into it, and realize it's just a puddle.", "author": "Edgar Nye", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 28, "text": "If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.", "author": "Thomas Aquinas", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 574, "text": "Beauty in the struggle, ugliness in the success.", "author": "J. 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You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 24, "text": "The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 155, "text": "Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 697, "text": "A fool prays for an easier road; a wise man prays for stronger legs.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 25, "text": "Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 10, "text": "Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who couldn't hear the music.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 575, "text": "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.", "author": "Dr. Wayne Dyer", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 347, "text": "What progress have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 614, "text": "If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they'll fly away. But if you spend time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come. Even if they don’t, you’ll still have a beautiful garden.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 750, "text": "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.", "author": "Michelangelo", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 751, "text": "A man who fears pain more than failure will taste both.", "author": "", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 43, "text": "The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 573, "text": "Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced.", "author": "James Baldwin", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 508, "text": "If you love a flower, don’t pick it up. Because if you pick it up, it dies, and it ceases to be what you love. So, if you love a flower, let it be. Love is not about possession; love is about appreciation.", "author": "Osho", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 59, "text": "You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.", "author": "Goethe", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 683, "text": "You can bind up my leg, but not even Zeus has the power to break my freedom of choice.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 198, "text": "The greatest mistake a man can make is being afraid of making one.", "author": "Elbert Hubbard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 664, "text": "When we lose our principles, we invite chaos.", "author": "Irving ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 698, "text": "If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 635, "text": "Pain comes from within, and you are free to let go of pain.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 66, "text": "No man is free who cannot control himself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 46, "text": "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.", "author": "Dalai Lama", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 47, "text": "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 678, "text": "Nothing to fear but fear itself.", "author": "Franklin D. 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Eliot", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 243, "text": "The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become.", "author": "Heraclitus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 278, "text": "Don't fear sadness, as it tends to sit right next to love.", "author": "Sahil Bloom", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 284, "text": "Don't reply when you're angry.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 648, "text": "That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche ", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 82, "text": "The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 397, "text": "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.", "author": "John Wooden", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 679, "text": "Fear is nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzed needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.", "author": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 665, "text": "Other people’s views and troubles can be contagious. Don’t sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 91, "text": "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 50, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 752, "text": "Pain is inevitable; misery is a choice.", "author": "", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 595, "text": "Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 682, "text": "Above all, you are a human being, carrying no greater power than your own reasoned choice, which oversees all other things, and is free from any other master.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 684, "text": "You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 87, "text": "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 615, "text": "You will face many defeats in your life. But, never let yourself be defeated.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 699, "text": "Yesterday doesn’t exist the same way there is no tomorrow.", "author": "Mmhc", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 637, "text": "Even right now, you are living one of your answered prayers.", "author": "Kristen Butler", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 100, "text": "Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.", "author": "Plato", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 680, "text": "An economic depression is bad; panic is worse. A tough situation isn’t helped by terror—it only makes things harder.", "author": "Ryan Holiday", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 127, "text": "He who sweats more in training will bleed less in war.", "author": "George S. Patton Jr.", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 666, "text": "If you think that someone has ruined your life, you’re right; it’s you.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 681, "text": "Those who aren’t pompous in good times don’t have their bubbles burst with change.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 728, "text": "My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.", "author": "Charles Dickens", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 161, "text": "One day, you will understand that happiness was always about learning how to live with yourself, that your happiness was never in the hands of others.", "author": "Bianca Sparacino", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 55, "text": "If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.", "author": "Zig Ziglar", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 187, "text": "Through discipline comes freedom.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 616, "text": "Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.", "author": "Robin Sharma", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 596, "text": "In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 186, "text": "Wake up with determination; go to sleep with satisfaction.", "author": "George Lorimer", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 270, "text": "Once you realize the power of your words, you won't just say anything. When you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't entertain just anything. Once you figure out the power of your presence, you won't just be anywhere.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 718, "text": "The higher the mountains we climb, the deeper the roots that we find!", "author": "Steven Stückler aka. FreiDenker26", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 617, "text": "Remember, some of the best times of your life haven’t even happened yet.", "author": "Doug Carwright", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 172, "text": "You wouldn't plant a seed and then dig it up every few minutes to see if it had grown.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 141, "text": "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.", "author": "Alexander Hamilton", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 160, "text": "Any person capable of angering you, becomes your master.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 488, "text": "Concentrate every minute like a Roman on doing what's in front of you.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 280, "text": "To be angry is to let others' mistakes control you. To forgive is to control yourself.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 620, "text": "Who you are speaks so loudly that I can’t hear what you’re saying.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 204, "text": "You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 618, "text": "If you want a new idea, read an old book.", "author": "Ivan Pavlov", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 163, "text": "I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there—that is living.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 701, "text": "To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.", "author": "Manly P. 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If you don't commit yourself to the point that you can be hurt, then you haven't committed yourself to the point that you can win either.", "author": "Kyle Creek", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 782, "text": "The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.", "author": "Naval Ravikant", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 165, "text": "It's not things that upset us, it's our judgement about things.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 598, "text": "Being angry is the way of showing weakness; staying calm is your superpower.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 207, "text": "Expect nothing; appreciate everything.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 226, "text": "Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 151, "text": "It’s not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It’s because we dare not venture that they are difficult.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 148, "text": "There’s no reason to look at the ground when soaring through the air.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 335, "text": "Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. Be aware, always and at every moment, that the miracle is in the here and now.", "author": "Marcel Proust", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 221, "text": "I can't afford to hate anyone. I don't have that kind of time.", "author": "Akira Kurosawa", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 669, "text": "Much of the stress that people feel doesn’t come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they’ve started.", "author": "David Allen", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 732, "text": "Save money today and it will save you tomorrow.", "author": "", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 330, "text": "What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.", "author": "Viktor Frankl", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 619, "text": "Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 122, "text": "If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 667, "text": "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.", "author": "James Allen", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 177, "text": "When a dog barks at you, you never fall on your hands and knees to bark back.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 640, "text": "Eventually, the time that was not spent on learning skills will catch up to you and the fall would be painful.", "author": "Robert Greene ", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 175, "text": "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 668, "text": "Stress is caused by being “here” but wanting to be “there”, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future.", "author": "Eckhart Toll", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 168, "text": "Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 266, "text": "Nothing, everything, anything, something: if you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 273, "text": "Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 272, "text": "Grant to us the serenity of mind to accept that which cannot be changed, courage to change that which can be changed, and wisdom to know the one from the other.", "author": "Reinhold Niebuhr", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 299, "text": "He who sweats more in training, will bleed less in war.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 350, "text": "Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.", "author": "H Jackson Brown Jr.", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 642, "text": "Don’t wait for a feeling to take action; act your way into a feeling.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 213, "text": "Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.", "author": "Denzel Washington", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 53, "text": "It's better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener at war.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 296, "text": "Nothing changes if nothing changes.", "author": "Courtney C. 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If it is not true, do not say it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 170, "text": "It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 164, "text": "To lead an orchestra, you must turn your back to the crowd.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 686, "text": "You cannot allow your desire to be a winner be diminished by previous success.", "author": "Lionel Messi", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 621, "text": "Getting organized is a sign of self-respect.", "author": "Gabrielle Bernstein ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 247, "text": "Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.", "author": "John Steinbeck", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 217, "text": "There are some things that you cannot be sure of. You must take a chance. If you wait for perfect weather, you will never plant your seeds. If you are afraid that every cloud will bring rain, you will never harvest your crops.", "author": "The Bible (Ecclesiastes 11:3-5)", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 641, "text": "There’s a reason your windshield is bigger than your rear view mirror. Where you’re headed is more important than what you left behind.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 158, "text": "Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 562, "text": "He who thinks the journey is over is truly lost.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 95, "text": "Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.", "author": "Zeno", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 133, "text": "Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 690, "text": "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.", "author": "Dale Carnegie", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 707, "text": "The magic you’re looking for is in the work you’re avoiding.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 281, "text": "Don't criticize when you're envious.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 144, "text": "Never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruin the happiness of your present.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 301, "text": "Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 294, "text": "Honesty without compassion is cruelty, and kindness without honesty is manipulation.", "author": "Bryan Reeves", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 337, "text": "He who is everywhere is nowhere.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 298, "text": "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.", "author": "Franklin D. 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It is rain that allows growth, not thunder.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 332, "text": "We are disturbed not by things, but by the view which we take of them.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 257, "text": "Make a habit of two things: to help, or at least, to do no harm.", "author": "Hippocrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 178, "text": "A person that is able to anger you becomes your master.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 334, "text": "Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 279, "text": "Always remind yourself that your track record for making it through your bad days is perfect.", "author": "Sahil Bloom", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 646, "text": "You’re exactly where you’re supposed to be.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "all", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 600, "text": "Don't wait. The time will never be just right.", "author": "Napoleon Hill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 157, "text": "It is fruitless to wish you had started years ago. In the future you will wish you had started today.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 622, "text": "For every minute spent organizing, an hour is earned.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 154, "text": "Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, damned if you don’t. 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I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on-and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.’.", "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 601, "text": "Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.", "author": "Og Mandino", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 673, "text": "What you're not changing, you're choosing.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 173, "text": "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the ones you did.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 34, "text": "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 147, "text": "A real loser is someone who's so afraid of not winning he doesn't even try.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 724, "text": "There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation hard work and learning from failure.", "author": "Colin Powell", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 131, "text": "Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.", "author": "Plutarch", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 197, "text": "He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 663, "text": "You can have anything, but not everything.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "all", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 352, "text": "Once you find out the power of your presence, you won't just be anywhere. Once you realize the power of your thoughts, you won't just entertain anything. Once you realize the power of the tongue, you won't just say anything.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 341, "text": "Patience is also a form of action.", "author": "Auguste Rodin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 146, "text": "Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?", "author": "Kanye West", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 634, "text": "The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 35, "text": "Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 49, "text": "More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision.", "author": "Cicero", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 30, "text": "All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.", "author": "James Allen", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 130, "text": "Man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.", "author": "Nikos Kazantzakis", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 33, "text": "Circumstances don't make a man, they only reveal him to himself.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philsophy", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 715, "text": "Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.", "author": "Eugene Ionesco", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 189, "text": "With the courage to begin and the discipline to endure, victory becomes a matter of time.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 124, "text": "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.", "author": "Epicurus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 143, "text": "1 tree can make 1000 matches, but 1 match can burn 1000 trees. Don’t let a negative thought destroy you and your positive ones.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 188, "text": "The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.", "author": "Machiavelli", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 623, "text": "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.", "author": "Chinese Proverb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 159, "text": "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.", "author": "Bertrand Russell", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 551, "text": "Everything hangs on one's thinking. A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 18, "text": "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.", "author": "Zeno", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 153, "text": "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 785, "text": "Failing to plan is planning to fail", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 7, "text": "Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 736, "text": "A winner is just a loser who tried one more time.", "author": "George M. 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Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 223, "text": "The desire for a more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one's negative experience is itself a positive experience.", "author": "Mark Manson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 624, "text": "No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 788, "text": "You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated", "author": "Maya Angelou", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 585, "text": "If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 156, "text": "The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 787, "text": "There are no regrets in life just lessons", "author": "Jennifer Aniston", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 613, "text": "At the end of the day, we all end up in the same place: six feet under or in a vase.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 602, "text": "Always do what you are afraid to do.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 179, "text": "Never stop being a good person because of bad people.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 645, "text": "Ambition without action is entitlement.", "author": "Alex Hormozi", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 688, "text": "Be strong enough to be gentle.", "author": "Peter Cullen", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 31, "text": "People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is a confession of their character.", "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 150, "text": "What comes easy won't last long; what lasts long won't come easy.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 706, "text": "If you live in the future, you’re anxious. If you live in the past, you’re depressed. If you live in the now, you’re happy.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 149, "text": "You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 6, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 674, "text": "Time is made up of a succession of tomorrows and one day is just like another. Inevitable sorrows do not become joys by postponement.", "author": "Ramayana", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 205, "text": "If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are in the present.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 210, "text": "If you go without something long enough, you'll realize one of two things: how much you really want it or how much you never needed it.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 537, "text": "Live where your heart finds life.", "author": "Kavya Dixit", "classification": "null", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 318, "text": "168, that’s a special number, no matter how rich or poor, we are all given the same number, which is the number of hours in a week.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 152, "text": "Of this one thing make sure against your dying day - that your faults die before you do.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 636, "text": "You can't give your life more time, so give the time that you have more life.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 36, "text": "Prejudices are what fools use for reason.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 8, "text": "No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity, for he is not permitted to prove himself.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 16, "text": "He who does not enjoy solitude will not enjoy freedom.", "author": "Schopenhauer", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 633, "text": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.", "author": "Bernard Baruch", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 90, "text": "They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 85, "text": "Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 97, "text": "True wisdom comes to each of us when we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 166, "text": "If you keep re-reading the same chapter, you will never finish the book.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 136, "text": "Never blame any day in your life. Good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience, and the worst days give you a lesson.", "author": "Dr. Sukhraj Dhillon", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 407, "text": "If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 208, "text": "Until it's my turn, I will keep clapping for others.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 194, "text": "The meaning of life is that it stops.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 219, "text": "You cannot find peace by avoiding life.", "author": "Virginia Woolf", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 789, "text": "The secret of getting ahead is getting started", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 603, "text": "Sometimes when you're in a dark place, you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.", "author": "Christine Caine", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 765, "text": "A man who fears fear more than failure shall taste both.", "author": "", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 791, "text": "Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 790, "text": "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken", "author": "Oscar Wilde", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 209, "text": "Just because someone carries it well, doesn't mean it isn't heavy.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 605, "text": "You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 793, "text": "If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.", "author": "Roy T. Bennett", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 794, "text": "Discipline your mind to think positively, to see the good in every situation and look on the best side in every event.", "author": "Roy T. 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Milne", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 201, "text": "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 795, "text": "The man who aims for the moon reaches the stars. The main who aims for the roof stays on the floor", "author": "", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 1, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 135, "text": "Every reminiscence is coloured by today's being what it is, and therefore by a deceptive point of view.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 193, "text": "The true traveler never arrives.", "author": "Edgar Degas", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 200, "text": "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.", "author": "Henry Ford", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 199, "text": "If every time someone asks you a question, you try to say the right answer, your entire life is a test.", "author": "Kanye West", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 7, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 591, "text": "Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.", "author": "Neil Strauss", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 292, "text": "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 629, "text": "This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.", "author": "Maya Angelou", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 216, "text": "You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 290, "text": "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.", "author": "Frank A. Clark", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 246, "text": "To love someone is to confess: I'm prepared to be devastated by you.", "author": "Billy-Ray Belcourt", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 212, "text": "If you think the price of winning is too high, wait until you get the bill from regret.", "author": "Tim Grover", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 251, "text": "Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease.", "author": "Yann Martel", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 230, "text": "When nobody wakes you up in the morning, waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, freedom or loneliness?", "author": "Charles Bukowski", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 625, "text": "Don’t let your food get cold watching someone else’s plate.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 240, "text": "If art is how we decorate space, then music is how we decorate time.", "author": "Jean-Michel Basquiat", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 228, "text": "Those who do not move do not notice their chains.", "author": "Rosa Luxemburg", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 181, "text": "Never wait for a perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 238, "text": "You shouldn't climb mountains for the world to see you, but for you to see the world.", "author": "David McCullough Jr. ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 241, "text": "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.", "author": "George Bernard Shaw", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 191, "text": "When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 253, "text": "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 7, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 254, "text": "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 256, "text": "Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 258, "text": "Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 260, "text": "Whether you think you can or think you can't—you are right.", "author": "Henry Ford", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 264, "text": "I no longer know if I wish to drown myself in love, vodka, or the sea.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 222, "text": "It does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of these things and still be calm in your heart.", "author": "Lori Gottlieb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 137, "text": "Good or bad, it's temporary. So don't let your bad times make you lose hope, and don't let your good times make you feel larger than life.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 232, "text": "Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, and mirror what you admire.", "author": "Deb Sofield", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 252, "text": "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 463, "text": "But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.", "author": "Albert Camus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 233, "text": "If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 229, "text": "When a person tells you you hurt them, you don't get to decide you didn't.", "author": "Louis C. K.", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 245, "text": "Confidence isn't thinking you're better than anyone else, it's realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else.", "author": "Maryam Hasnaa", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 215, "text": "Since my house burned down I now own a better view of the rising moon.", "author": "", "classification": "", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 220, "text": "Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 344, "text": "A new world is only a new mind.", "author": "William Carlos Williams", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 15, "text": "When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 327, "text": "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 44, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 289, "text": "Criticism, like rain, may dampen the spirit; yet, from such showers, the soul's garden blooms ever brighter.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 255, "text": "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 345, "text": "You could leave life right now; let that determine what you do, say, and think.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 227, "text": "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.", "author": "Spinoza", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 214, "text": "The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 183, "text": "Not every day is good, but there is something good in every day.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 244, "text": "How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 196, "text": "Live as if it's your second life, and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to now.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 647, "text": "To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.", "author": "Leonard Bernstein", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 225, "text": "Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.", "author": "Napoleon", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 192, "text": "Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 263, "text": "When you are not choosing to chase something, you are choosing distraction for yourself.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 675, "text": "Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.", "author": "John Lennon", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 218, "text": "Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.", "author": "Sylvia Plath", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 211, "text": "Be neither so arrogant as to presume to be liked by everyone, nor so humble as to give in to the discontent of a few.", "author": "Niccolo Machiavelli", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 234, "text": "A mistake should be your teacher, not your attacker. A mistake is a lesson, not a loss. It is a temporary, necessary detour, not a dead end.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 169, "text": "When the winds of change blow, some people build walls, other build windmills.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 224, "text": "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 302, "text": "Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.", "author": "C.S. 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I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 288, "text": "Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.", "author": "Johann Von Goethe", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 265, "text": "Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a part of success.", "author": "Arianna Huffington", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 268, "text": "Don't trust your tongue when your heart is hurt, hush and take time to heal.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 285, "text": "Don't promise when you're happy.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 41, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 271, "text": "To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 348, "text": "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.", "author": "Benjamin Franklin", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 403, "text": "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.", "author": "Henry Miller", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 195, "text": "I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face.", "author": "Franz Kafka", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 259, "text": "Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 248, "text": "I'm not everything I want to be, but I'm more than I was, and I'm still learning.", "author": "Charlotte Eriksson", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 206, "text": "To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 291, "text": "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 293, "text": "The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 274, "text": "Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 261, "text": "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 269, "text": "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.", "author": "Plato", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 308, "text": "It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 582, "text": "When will you begin to live virtuously?", "author": "Plato", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 509, "text": "Know thy self. Be thy self. Love thy self.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 494, "text": "If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom.", "author": "African Proverb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 306, "text": "We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intentions.", "author": "Stephen Covey", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 491, "text": "If you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would suddenly become special and precious, wouldn't it?", "author": "Haruki Murakami", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 283, "text": "Don't decide when you're sad.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 72, "text": "Cease to hope and you will cease to fear.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 320, "text": "Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 583, "text": "Miserable people mistake kindness for idiocy because their ego blinds them to the beauty that other people hold in their hearts everyday.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 482, "text": "The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.", "author": "Alexander the Great", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 405, "text": "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.", "author": "James Dean", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 328, "text": "It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 628, "text": "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.", "author": "Wayne Gretzky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 297, "text": "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 333, "text": "The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 20, "text": "Anyone can find the switch after the lights are on.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 323, "text": "The trials you face will introduce you to your strengths.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 326, "text": "Trust confident scepticism over arrogant conviction.", "author": "Cole Hastings", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 309, "text": "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 242, "text": "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.", "author": "Buddha", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 709, "text": "If you fake bravery when you’re terrified, that is bravery.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 343, "text": "It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.", "author": "John Guare", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 342, "text": "The whole future lives in uncertainty: live immediately.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 322, "text": "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 340, "text": "Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.", "author": "Naguib Mahfouz", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 553, "text": "If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.", "author": "Lemony Snicket", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 627, "text": "If you pray for flowers, don’t be surprised when it starts to rain.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 324, "text": "Remind yourself what you've been through and what you've had the strength to endure.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 250, "text": "God said “Love your enemy,” so I obeyed him and loved myself.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 363, "text": "When you want to help people, tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, tell them what they want to hear.", "author": "Thomas Sowell", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 89, "text": "All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.", "author": "Edgar Allan Poe", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 550, "text": "Don't be afraid. You're going to make it, but it's always going to feel as if you're not. That's the fun in it.", "author": "Alan Watts", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 325, "text": "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence on the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 565, "text": "Be humble enough to know that you can be replaced, but be wise enough to know that there’s no one like you.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 445, "text": "Whoever carries the blame, carries the power.", "author": "Alex Hormozi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 355, "text": "I have learned to seek happiness by limiting my desires, rather than by trying to satisfy them.", "author": "John Stuart Hill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 8, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 393, "text": "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 441, "text": "We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our preparation.", "author": "Archilochus", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 466, "text": "A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance.", "author": "Hunter S. Thompson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 311, "text": "Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 321, "text": "Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 129, "text": "Pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don't magnify them in your imagination.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 479, "text": "Difficulties strengthen the mind as labour does the body.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 295, "text": "The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 0, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 313, "text": "The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 478, "text": "Without commitment, you’ll never start. Without consistency, you’ll never finish.", "author": "Denzel Washington", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 468, "text": "What I advise you to do is not to be unhappy before the crisis comes.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 316, "text": "Go after what creates meaning and trust yourself with the stress you may encounter.", "author": "Kelly McGonigal", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 329, "text": "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 312, "text": "You are not a drop in the ocean; you are the entire ocean, in a drop.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 315, "text": "True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 362, "text": "Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 358, "text": "If you wish to be loved, love.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 314, "text": "Discipline is the bridge between who you are and who you want to become. Cross it daily.", "author": "Georges St-Pierre", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 30, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 339, "text": "Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 111, "text": "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in the moment of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at the times of challenge.", "author": "Martin Luther King Jr", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 351, "text": "Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 473, "text": "The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 303, "text": "We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.", "author": "Alphonse Karr", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 360, "text": "Don't compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.", "author": "Jordan Peterson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 474, "text": "No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for it’s irretrievable.", "author": "Zeno", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 357, "text": "The axe forgets what the tree remembers. Be kind with your words and be careful with your temper; people will remember your throw away comments.", "author": "African Proverb", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 444, "text": "There is no better teacher than adversity.", "author": "Malcolm X", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 544, "text": "It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.", "author": "Aeschylus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 465, "text": "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the greatest victory is over self.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 566, "text": "To know what you know and what you don’t know, that is true knowledge.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 572, "text": "An entire sea of water cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world cannot put you down unless you allow it to get inside of you.", "author": "Goi Nasu", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 28, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 693, "text": "When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.", "author": "Roy T. Bennett", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 359, "text": "What you are is what you have been. What you'll be is what you do now.", "author": "Buddha", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 608, "text": "The present is the one and only way that we actually are.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 691, "text": "Life is not easy for any of us. We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.", "author": "Marie Curie", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 490, "text": "Stupid is the man who always remains the same.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 649, "text": "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.", "author": "Robert Frost", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 692, "text": "To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness and triumph with humility.", "author": "Thomas S. 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A sick man wants one.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 542, "text": "Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.", "author": "Kurt Vonnegut", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 497, "text": "He cannot become old, for he has never been young; he cannot become young, for he has already become old; in a way he cannot die, for he has never lived; in a way he cannot live, for he is already dead.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 539, "text": "Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 510, "text": "He who jumps owes no explanation to those who sit and watch.", "author": "Godard", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 399, "text": "Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.", "author": "Viktor E. Frankl", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 237, "text": "The important thing is to hold on. Holding on is a victory in itself.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 529, "text": "Success is not just about reaching the goal itself. It’s about who we become in the process.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 49, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 569, "text": "You do not rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems.", "author": "James Clear", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 584, "text": "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.", "author": "Lao Tzu", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 533, "text": "As a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 541, "text": "Don't be afraid to start over again. This time, you're not starting from scratch, you're starting from experience.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 184, "text": "Everything will be ok in the end. If it's not ok, then it's not the end.", "author": "Paulo Coelho", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 504, "text": "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 23, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 540, "text": "As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.", "author": "Leonardo Da Vinci", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 235, "text": "All you can do is learn your lesson. There's no point in wishing you had done it differently. The past is the past; accept it and grow from it.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 547, "text": "You can't hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 41, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 606, "text": "No amount of regretting can change the past; no amount of worrying can change the future.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 442, "text": "One path to a happy life is to retain a sense of wonder.", "author": "Naval Ravikant", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 356, "text": "Don't be overheard complaining, not even to yourself.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 480, "text": "The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.", "author": "Jiddu Krishnamurti", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 484, "text": "Normality is a paved road: it’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.", "author": "Vincent Van Gogh", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 420, "text": "Be prepared to work always without applause.", "author": "Ernest Hemingway", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 483, "text": "Between what is said but not meant, and meant but not said, most of love is lost.", "author": "Khalil Gibran", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 496, "text": "Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.", "author": "Warren Buffet ", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 626, "text": "The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 514, "text": "Great things happen to those who don’t stop believing, trying, learning and being grateful.", "author": "Roy T. 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If you want to go far, go together.", "author": "African Proverb", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 38, "text": "The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 543, "text": "The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away.", "author": "Leland Val ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 528, "text": "Tranquility comes when you stop caring about what they say, think, or do; only about what you do.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 182, "text": "Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 39, "text": "Life is quite simple, but we insist on making it complicated", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 535, "text": "Act according to your principle, not your mood.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 29, "text": "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 60, "text": "Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.", "author": "Plato", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 502, "text": "The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.", "author": "Theodore Roosevelt", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 552, "text": "A secret to happiness is letting every situation be what it is instead of what you think it should be, then making the best of it.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 523, "text": "Anything easy will always be temporary. Have patience for the things you want to last forever.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 500, "text": "Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.", "author": "Mark Twain", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 44, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 503, "text": "To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.", "author": "Friedrich Nietzsche", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 554, "text": "\"It's impossible,\" said pride. \"It's risky,\" said experience. \"It's pointless,\" said reason. \"Give it a try,\" whispered the heart.", "author": "William Arthur Ward", "classification": "upliftment", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 519, "text": "Let me fall if I must fall. The one I’m becoming will catch me.", "author": "Baal Shem Tov ", "classification": "all", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 5, "text": "Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who can not control himself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 286, "text": "You wish to be kind, so you are tested with negativity. You wish to be strong, so you are tested with weakness. You wish to love, so you are tested by being alone.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 76, "text": "I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.", "author": "Fernando Pessoa", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 50, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 526, "text": "Sometimes we need someone to simply be there. Not to say anything or fix anything, but to let us know they’re on our side and that they care for us.", "author": "Brigitte Nicole", "classification": "all", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 505, "text": "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 527, "text": "Patience isn’t passive; it’s about persisting in the face of uncertainty. Keep working, even when progress isn’t visible. Eventually, the light at the end of the tunnel will shine through.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 536, "text": "You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 56, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 346, "text": "Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen: this is the path to peace.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 50, "text": "You become what you give your attention to.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 532, "text": "You didn't go through all that for nothing.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 180, "text": "A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 9, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 174, "text": "Patience is bitter, but its fruit are sweet.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 531, "text": "Have patience for the things you want to last forever.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 24, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 516, "text": "The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius ", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 67, "text": "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 317, "text": "It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change.", "author": "Charles Darwin", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 79, "text": "An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.", "author": "Leo Tolstoy", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 57, "text": "Above all, avoid falsehood. Every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 11, "text": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 32, "text": "You cannot escape the responsibilities of tomorrow by evading them today.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 80, "text": "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 507, "text": "Listen without judgement, love without attachment.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 4, "text": "Those who look for bad in people will surely find it.", "author": "Abraham Lincoln", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 696, "text": "Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour does the body.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 58, "text": "Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people learn from their experiences. Stupid people already have the answers.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 338, "text": "Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you someone who hasn't achieved much.", "author": "Joan Collins", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 44, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 23, "text": "What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments but what is woven into the lives of others.", "author": "Pericles", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 42, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 9, "text": "He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 70, "text": "Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 2, "text": "Instead of fighting the world, kill your ego.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 54, "text": "Without training, they lacked knowledge, without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 142, "text": "If you evade conflict to keep the peace, you start a war inside yourself.", "author": "Cheryl Richardson", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 722, "text": "Don’t be afraid to ask for support, for a flower only grows with help from the rain.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "all", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 522, "text": "To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 467, "text": "Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.", "author": "Alain De Botton", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 104, "text": "If you hear a voice within you saying, \"You're not a painter,\" then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.", "author": "Vincent Van Gogh", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 88, "text": "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 20, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 86, "text": "While we wait for life, life passes.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 93, "text": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.", "author": "Julius Caesar", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 99, "text": "One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.", "author": "Voltaire", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 7, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 521, "text": "Give people their flowers while they can still smell them.", "author": "Unknown Author", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 41, "text": "Above all things, respect yourself.", "author": "Pythagoras", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 47, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 26, "text": "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 713, "text": "When you get tired, learn to rest not quit", "author": "", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 1, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 44, "text": "A wise man doesn't say every single thing he thinks, but thinks every single thing he says.", "author": "Rumi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 17, "text": "Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.", "author": "George Adair", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 51, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 513, "text": "He who has no attachments can really love others.", "author": "Bahgwad Gita", "classification": "love", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 6, "text": "When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.", "author": "Viktor Frankl", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 61, "text": "We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 78, "text": "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 35, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 126, "text": "If it's out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too.", "author": "Ivan Nuru", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 139, "text": "Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act.", "author": "Les Brown", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 41, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 75, "text": "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 33, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 81, "text": "The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 51, "text": "Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 517, "text": "Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.", "author": "Alexander Graham Bell", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 17, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 515, "text": "All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.", "author": "Walt Disney", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 62, "text": "Courage isn't having the strength to go on—it is going on when you don't have strength.", "author": "Napoleon", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 45, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 69, "text": "Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that is takes in.", "author": "Leonardo Da Vinci", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 56, "text": "To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 119, "text": "Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.", "author": "Leonardo Da Vinci", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 53, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 84, "text": "Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes and denies us the present by promising the future.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 65, "text": "Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that's in others.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 16, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 63, "text": "Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 101, "text": "Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.", "author": "Al-Ghazali", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 103, "text": "Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 15, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 105, "text": "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 31, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 74, "text": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.", "author": "Aristotle", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 21, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 98, "text": "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.", "author": "Heraclitus", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 120, "text": "Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.", "author": "Hafez", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 123, "text": "A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 29, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 128, "text": "The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet.", "author": "James Oppenheim", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 27, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 140, "text": "What we speak becomes the house we live in.", "author": "Hafez", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 19, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 117, "text": "Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 13, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 109, "text": "Until you get comfortable with being alone, you'll never know if you're choosing someone out of love or loneliness.", "author": "Mandy Hale", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 520, "text": "Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "discipline", "approved": false, "likes": 40, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 115, "text": "Your past mistakes are there to guide you, not to define you.", "author": "Les Brown", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 26, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 96, "text": "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.", "author": "Charles Dickens", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 48, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 121, "text": "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 92, "text": "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.", "author": "Pablo Picasso", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 571, "text": "Every man has two lives, and the second begins when he realizes he just has one.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 25, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 108, "text": "Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.", "author": "William Shakespeare", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 40, "text": "May the flowers remind us of why the rain was so necessary.", "author": "Xan Oku", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 32, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 714, "text": "The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.", "author": "Winston Churchill", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 1, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 116, "text": "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.", "author": "Vivian Greene", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 71, "text": "They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of dawn.", "author": "Seneca", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 36, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 112, "text": "Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.", "author": "Albert Einstein", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 102, "text": "Do it or do not do it—you will regret both.", "author": "Soren Kierkegaard", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 39, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 534, "text": "Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.", "author": "Confucius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 118, "text": "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.", "author": "Epictetus", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 34, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 489, "text": "You don't need to have an opinion about everything. Don't get worked up about things you can't control. These things didn't ask for your attention. Leave them alone.", "author": "Marcus Aurelius", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 64, "text": "Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.", "author": "Miyamoto Musashi", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 43, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 113, "text": "Worrying does not take away tomorrow's troubles. It takes away today's peace.", "author": "Randy Armstrong", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 46, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 138, "text": "To sit on an idea or fail to act on a goal is not really goal-setting, but wishful thinking.", "author": "Les Brown", "classification": "motivation", "approved": false, "likes": 52, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 114, "text": "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.", "author": "Christopher Columbus", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 55, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 548, "text": "It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.", "author": "Dostoyevsky", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 10, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 77, "text": "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.", "author": "Socrates", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 54, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 125, "text": "Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 14, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 774, "text": "Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.", "author": "Roald Dahl", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 22, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 612, "text": "With one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you're pissing on the present.", "author": "Malachy Mccourt", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 18, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 110, "text": "When you are right, you have no need to be angry. When you are wrong, you have no right to be angry.", "author": "Mahatma Gandhi", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 38, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 506, "text": "Passion comes through learning rather than through desire or gratification.", "author": "NULL", "classification": "inspiration", "approved": false, "likes": 12, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 73, "text": "Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.", "author": "Carl Jung", "classification": "wisdom", "approved": false, "likes": 11, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" }, { "id": 132, "text": "The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison", "author": "Fyodor Dostoyevsky", "classification": "philosophy", "approved": false, "likes": 37, "submitter_name": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": null, "edit_text": "", "edit_author": "", "edit_classification": "" } ]