{"quotes":[{"text":"Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["being-your-best","being-your-true-self","being-yourself","challenge","defience","difficulties","doing-your-life-s-work","dream-job","enduring","enduring-hardships","ethical-behaviour","ethical-teaching","happiness","job","learning","obstacles","polishing","pressure","refine","refinement","resistance","searching-for-happiness","work","work-ethic","works","works-righteousness"],"id":31818,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.","author":"Yukio Mishima","tags":["acceptance","elegance","inaction","indifference","japan","passivity","refinement"],"id":32920,"author_id":"Yukio+Mishima"},{"text":"I have come to believe that our innate purpose is nothing more than to be the greatest version of ourselves. It is a process of refinement, improvement, and enhancement. When you are aligned with this process and living your purpose, you have the potential of creating something amazing.","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["aligned","amazing","change","creating","enhancement","greatness","improvement","living","potential","process","purpose","refinement","success"],"id":57433,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["destiny","destiny-and-attitude","destiny","discipline","discipline","preparation","refinement","refinement"],"id":77397,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"},{"text":"Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["destiny","destiny-and-attitude","destiny","discipline","discipline","preparation","refinement","refinement"],"id":77397,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"},{"text":"The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["fire","life-and-living","life-challenges","life-lessons","life","life-and-sayings","lifestyle","light-of-christ","refinement","refinement"],"id":81337,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"},{"text":"The fires of refinement will shine the light of Christ into the dark places of our hearts, burn off the chaff, and restore us to a state of greater purity.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["fire","life-and-living","life-challenges","life-lessons","life","life-and-sayings","lifestyle","light-of-christ","refinement","refinement"],"id":81337,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"},{"text":"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.","author":"Leo Tolstoy","tags":["analogy","ignorance","knowledge","refinement","wisdom"],"id":113840,"author_id":"Leo+Tolstoy"},{"text":"God sees Himself in the eyes of the refined soul.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["god-loves-us-unconditionally","gods-love","life-lessons","life","living-well","love","refinement","refinement"],"id":113941,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"},{"text":"God sees Himself in the eyes of the refined soul.","author":"Robin Bertram","tags":["god-loves-us-unconditionally","gods-love","life-lessons","life","living-well","love","refinement","refinement"],"id":113941,"author_id":"Robin+Bertram"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}