{"quotes":[{"text":"Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["advice","advices","advise","aphorism","aphorisms","counsel","counseling","counselling","counsellor","counsellors","counselor","counselors","divorce","divorced","divorcee","divorcees","experience","extended-families","extended-family","families","family","fool","foolish","fools","humor","humour","husband","husbands","learn","learned","lesson","lessons","love","lover","lovers","made-me-think","make-you-think","marriage","marriage-proposal","marriage-proposals","married","marry","nuclear-families","nuclear-family","proposal","proposals","propose","provoke-thought","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","relationship","relationship-advice","relationships","satire","satirical","thought-provoking","useful","usefulness","useless","uselessness","wife","wisdom","wise","wives"],"id":9822,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"The reassuring smile was now useless. I was plastic. Everything was veiled. Objectivity, facts, hard information--these were things only in the outline stage. There was nothing tying anything together yet, so the mind built up a defense, and the evidence was restructured, and that was what I tried to do on that morning--to restructure the evidence so it made sense--and that is what I failed at.","author":"Bret Easton Ellis","tags":["defense","failure","mind","restructure","uselessness"],"id":41453,"author_id":"Bret+Easton+Ellis"},{"text":". . .Our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .","author":"John Daniel Thieme","tags":["confession","fleeting","futility","ignoring","impermanence","love","meaningless","uselessness","whispering","whispers","wind","words"],"id":44526,"author_id":"John+Daniel+Thieme"},{"text":"Love without humility results in the inclination to act as everyone's parent, humility without love results in the need to be everyone's child, and love with humility results in the desire to be a friend.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["arrogance","bossy","child","childishness","control","desire","ego","equality","family","friend","friends","friendship","friendships","friendships-and-love","humble","humility","immaturity","inclination","inequality","love","love-and-friendship","maturity","narcissism","parent","pride","psychology","relationship","results","selfishness","selflessness","sociology","uselessness"],"id":62712,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"No man voluntarily expresses his opinion without some intent to make a difference, and even if he does, he shouldn't.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["activism","arrogance","difference","ego","expression","freedom-of-speech","intentions","legacy","meaning","opinion","pride","purpose","uselessness","vanity"],"id":83729,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"It is unpardonable for you to leave this world without recording some greatness in your account.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","time","unfulfillment","uselessness","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":91356,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"If you leave this world without solving the problems for which you were born, then you are a failure.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conversion","convert","failure","fulfilling-purpose","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","poverty","problems","produce","product","productivity","purpose","solutions-to-problem","time","uselessness","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":94556,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"People skills are useless with cats, because cats are immune to training, and do whatever they decide in any situation... And most importantly they aren’t human.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["being","cat","cats","deciding","decision","decisions","human","immune","immunity","important","importantly","mule","mules","nothing","skill","skilled","skillful","stubborn","stubbornness","training","use","usefulness","uselessness","want","wants","whatever"],"id":101930,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"Nature is interested in only two things—to survive and to reproduce one like itself. Anything you superimpose on that, all the cultural input, is responsible for the boredom of man. So we have varieties of religious experience. You are not satisfied with your own religious teachings or games; so you bring in others from India, Asia or China. They become interesting because they are something new. You pick up a new language and try to speak it and use it to feel more important. But basically, it is the same thing.","author":"U.G. Krishnamurti","tags":["boredom","nature","religion","uselessness"],"id":104191,"author_id":"U.G.+Krishnamurti"},{"text":"It's where we're nearest to our humanness. Useless knowledge for its own sake. Useful knowledge is good, too, but it's for the faint-hearted, an elaboration of the real thing, which is only to shine some light, it doesn't matter where on what, it's the light itself, against the darkness, it's what's left of God's purpose when you take away God.","author":"Tom Stoppard","tags":["illumination","knowledge","uselessness"],"id":200962,"author_id":"Tom+Stoppard"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}