{"author":"Aberjhani","author_id":"Aberjhani","total_quotes":142,"quotes":[{"text":"The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["creativity","dancing","famous-poets","famous","literacy","music","national-poetry-month","poem-in-your-pocket-day","poetry","poetry","poets-and-poetry","reading","revelations","savannah-","savannah-poets","world-poetry-day"],"id":3643,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["beauty","famous-poets","famous","famous-from-classic-books","flowers","global-village","human-nature","international-relations","nations","peace","poetry","politics","war"],"id":4696,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["angels","classic-books","famous","famous-from-classic-books","grace","haiku","haikus","healing-the-past","hope","love","mercy","positive-motivation","recovery","sisters","spirituality","strength","survival","world-suicide-prevention-day","woundedness"],"id":5593,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["life","daily","voting "],"id":6848,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","assault-weapons","believing-in-love","coexistence","compassion","creative-minds","creative-thinking","diversity","drones","empowerment-and-attitude","ending-gun-violence","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","grace","great-power","gun-laws","gun-safety","indviduality","jihad","jihadism-and-love","love-for-humanity","nations","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","people","philosophy-of-compassion","philosophy-of-grace","power","salvation","spirituality","suicide","suicide-bombers","sustainable-living","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","waging-peace","war","wisdom"],"id":8382,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other’s blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven’s love.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["cruelty","fear","heaven","human-nature","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","spirituality","terrorism","truth","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":11647,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Stars ink your fingerswith a lexicon of flameblazing rare knowledge.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["angels-and-poets","famous-","famous-by-famous-poets","flame","haiku","ink","knowledge","lexicons","modern-classics","nanowrimo","national-poetry-month","original-source","poetry","poetry","poets","stars","world-poetry-movement"],"id":15199,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["death","dignity","faith","haiku","healing","heaven","human-mortality","love","metaphysics","national-poetry-month","philosophy","rebirth","recovery","resurrection","spirituality","starting-over","wisdom"],"id":16123,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["achieving-success","change","destiny-and-attitude","endurance","faith","inspirational","inspiring","making-progress","nanowrimo","national-novel-writing-month","new-year","perseverance","personal-empowerment","positive-attitude","positive-motivation","progress","strength-of-character","success-self-improvement"],"id":16682,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["at-risk-people","at-risk-youth","brokenness","compassion","counseling","empowerment-and-attitude","healing","healing-the-emotional-self","healing-the-past","helping-others","human-rights-day","humility","intervention","recovery","remembrances","suicidal","suicide","survival","survivor","survivors","survivors-of-war","survivorship","war-veterans","word-definitions"],"id":16733,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":142,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}