[ { "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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": 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": "" } ]