{"author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi","total_quotes":19,"quotes":[{"text":"People keep saying someone should fix the system, the system is corrupt. What they don’t get is; they are the system. It’s just like how people hate McDonald’s and Coca Cola. People say they are evil corporations, terrorists and ruining the health of the future but then, how are these brands live and running all over the world, making billions of dollars of profit every day? People still buy it, that’s how. The majority of the world is people who know something is bad for them but keep consuming it. If it’s so bad for you, why buy it? If the system is so bad, why do they vote for it? It’s the people who need to change not the leaders.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["corporations","corruption","democracy","life","people"],"id":8489,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"I believe in god. I also believe that you should never ask god to make your dreams come true. You have to work for your dreams. And dream actually, with all your mind body and soul. I don’t believe luck is when a super power grants us what we wished for. Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. So we need to be prepared all the time. Our dream awaits us. It’s already on its way. We just need to be prepared when it gets to us.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["inspirational-life","life"],"id":50022,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["peace","thisuri-wanniarachchi","war"],"id":59977,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["adversity","happiness","hard-times","inspirational","life"],"id":68360,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"As the doctors told him, he wanted to scream out loud and cry. He held his heavy head up and clenched his teeth and fists. “Men don’t cry,” his grandpa used to say. “Men don’t cry.” �8But he cried. Like a baby. He cried till he could feel cracks in his heart as he breathed. He cried till he knew he would never love again.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["cancer","heartbreak","love"],"id":87078,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"Terrorism is just a whole other level of anger management issues.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["anger-management","hilarious","humor","terrorism"],"id":154696,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"The thing about life is, you’ve got to somehow make it through the day. Don’t wait for the beautiful evening. Go on with your life. Of course, the beautiful evening will come. In fact, she’s on her way. And she’s coming to you as fast as she can. And dude, she’s beautiful.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["happiness","inspirational","life","thisuri-wanniarachchi"],"id":193954,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["inspirational","life","life-lessons","sports","sportsmanship"],"id":198944,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"He wished he understood where they come from: all the terrorists, religious revolutionists and hate-criminals. Did terrorizing entire communities of people help them sleep sound at night? Did it make them happy? Or are they just in for the attention? Have they nothing to lose? Or are they simply bored and spit balling issues that have always been there? Can all global acts of violence and terror be summed up, as just a whole other level of a mixture of bad parenting, psychological disorders and unattended anger management issues? Can they be treated, medically or spiritually? Are we waiting for the birth of another great visionary like Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Prophet Muhammad, who will 'make the world a better place'? Or are we just too soaked in the idea that religion is a dying concept and spirituality is overrated? Is it too late? Are we too far behind? He wanted to know.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["terrorism"],"id":235692,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"},{"text":"War crimes, you say?No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients at a time for no extra pay , the nuns who voluntarily teach English and math to children of refugee camps in the north, the monks who collect food to feed entire villages during crises, they are the people worth listening to, their opinion matters. So find me one of them who will say: they wish the war didn't end in 2009, that they wish Sri Lanka was divided into two parts. Find me one of them who agrees with the international war crime allegations against Sri Lanka, and I will listen. But I will not listen to the opinions of those who are paid to find faults in a war they were never a part of, a war they never experienced themselves. I will not listen to the opinions of those who watched the war on tv or read about it on the internet or were moved by a documentary on Al Jazeera. The war is over. The damage is done. Let Sri Lanka move on. So our children will never have to see what we've seen.","author":"Thisuri Wanniarachchi","tags":["arundati-roy","ife","inspiration","paulo-coelho","sri-lanka","war","war-crimes"],"id":279353,"author_id":"Thisuri+Wanniarachchi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}