{"quotes":[{"text":"He was everything your mother warned you about when she told you not to walk alone in the dark.","author":"Nenia Campbell","tags":["bad-boys","bad-romance","lovers","relationships","warnings"],"id":8975,"author_id":"Nenia+Campbell"},{"text":"There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason than they feel the need to have leverage. I find this to be a certain type of sickness of the mind. You could argue that they wish you no harm, however, the desire to simply have leverage over another— whether this is mental, emotional or physical— is, I think, a sickness of the mind. I can honestly say right now that I, 100%, have no manipulative intentions to gain leverage over any other person that I know.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["a-sickness-of-the-human-mind","guidance-in-life","leverage-over-other-people","life-is-not-a-game","manipulation","manipulative-people","sick-techniques","sickness-of-the-mind","warnings","wisdom"],"id":35369,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"If anything or anyone removes peace from you or inflicts confusion and judgment on you, this thing or person is not of God regardless of whether or not that person or thing has wrapped itself/himself in the wrapping paper with God's face printed all over it. Don't stop believing in God but stop believing in that person, in that thing. The wrapping paper with God's face stamped all over it isn't really God.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["god","guidance","inspirational-spiritual","judgement","peace","religion","spirituality","the-truth","truth","warnings"],"id":50405,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Never get involved with people who are likely to envy you at the end of the day. People like that will actually lurk in the bushes, play your mind, and pounce on you when you are at our most vulnerable state. Envy is the root of all evil, in all men and women, everywhere. They’re not going to leave your side, but for reasons that you wouldn’t like!","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["envy","guidance","jealousy","root-of-all-evil","strife","warnings","wisdom"],"id":51945,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"There is such a thirst to be known, isn't there? What is it about being known that would cause us to hunger so much after it, at any cost? I'm afraid too many of us have forgotten that far more noble is the journey that one embarks on to know oneself; than the trip one goes on in the search for fame. Isn't it better to know and to know and to know yourself and if your heart is found to be noble, isn't it better that you know this on your own and truly; rather than for you to chase after the thoughts that others might have of you? To be a true royal in heart is better than to be a false royal with a throne.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["fame","inspirational-wisdom","know-thyself","knowing-thyself","knowing-yourself","real-royalty","warnings","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":56207,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"We have reached the end of one era, and now we don't know what is all around us. Because we're already in a new era, and it is very different from the old one. Science and the world of technology are both changing everything so quickly, even our bodies. So the original ancient culture was present here, but to no avail, at this point in history it has come to stop. It still has some effect, some kind of continuity, but it cannot analyse and reformulate things, it cannot impact things with absolute strength. The age to follow will be full of dangers. It will be full of difficulties. In all likelihood, it will not be a good future for mankind. It is even possible this new era will mean the end of mankind.","author":"László Krasznahorkai","tags":["21st-century","culture","end-times","outlook","pessimism","predictions","the-future","warnings"],"id":67247,"author_id":"L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3+Krasznahorkai"},{"text":"Masterpieces, not always distinguished or distinguishable among all the works with pretensions to genius, are scattered about the world like warning notices in a mine field.","author":"Andrei Tarkovsky","tags":["art","genius","masterpieces","warnings"],"id":96909,"author_id":"Andrei+Tarkovsky"},{"text":"Oh, oh, no greater evil is there in this world, than the evil that lies in the hearts of those who repay good with evil. Oh no greater shame be upon anyone in this world, than the shame that be upon the heads of those who will not save the life that saved them. No greater evil, no greater shame. No greater trespass against God and angel and man; than a human who can say that they are entitled to repay good with evil.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["evil","evil-people","the-nature-of-evil","warnings"],"id":97932,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"If you swim effortlessly in the deep oceans, ride the waves to and from the shore, if you can breathe under water and dine on the deep treasures of the seas; mark my words, those who dwell on the rocks carrying nets will try to reel you into their catch. The last thing they want is for you to thrive in your habitat because they stand in their atmosphere where they beg and gasp for some air.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["advice","envy","inspirational","jealousy","mermaid","self-awareness","self-knowledge","siren","the-nature-of-envy","warnings","wisdom"],"id":111738,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"You can feel anything. All is free for you to feel. But I guarantee you that if you allow yourself to feel envy and then to swim in it, that envy will destroy you and the people around you. Envy is unlike anger. Envy is not a right wing nor a left wing, it is not on either end of the balancing beam. Nobody needs it and I can assure you that once you give yourself to it, you will be eaten up. Envy can even eat up nations, casting them up against each other and pull a whole nation down into an internal collapse.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["beware","envy","evil","pure-evil","the-nature-of-envy","warnings","wisdom"],"id":116901,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}