{"quotes":[{"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":"I don't want what love is. I want what love is supposed to be.","author":"N'Zuri Za Austin","tags":["agape-love","desires-and-dreams","desires","love","love","love-story","relationship","relationship","relationships-101","want","want"],"id":24498,"author_id":"N%27Zuri+Za+Austin"},{"text":"There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","angel-art","anti-racism","beauty","beauty-in-nature","believing-in-love","brexit","choosing-love-over-fear","choosing-love-over-hate","coexistence","color","community","compassion","compassion-saves-lives","courage-to-love","cross-culturalism","cultural-literacy","demographic-shifts","demographics","diversity","election-year-politics","european-union","grace","hate-crimes","hatred","hope-for-humanity","immigration","jealousy","love-for-humanity","millennial-generation","millennials","mindfulness","multiculturalismo","multiculturalità","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-love","practicing-peace","race-and-racism","rainbow","rainbows","regrexit","spirit-of-cooperation","spiritual-philosophy","spirituality","sustainable-humanity","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","we-are-charleston","we-are-humanity","we-are-orlando","wearecharleston","weareorlando","wisdom","xenophobia"],"id":36340,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of 'God as Agape' is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.","author":"John David Geib","tags":["agape","agape-love","christian","christianity","experiences","god","humanity","inspirational","jesus","words"],"id":65795,"author_id":"John+David+Geib"},{"text":"This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["afghanistan-war","agape-love","anguish","casualties-of-war","child-victims-of-war","children-killed-in-war","conflict-resolution","faith","fear","grief","gun-laws","gun-violence","hope","love","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","pain","peace","peace-movement","peacemaking","police-reform","police-shootings","russia-and-ukraine-conflict","spiritual-love","syrian-civil-war","tragedy","unconditional-love","violence","war","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":88606,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","compassion-heals-lives","duty-to-care","faith","friendship","hope","human-rights-day","inspiration","inspirational","joy","joy-of-life","love","positive-motivation","sharing","spirituality","world-suicide-prevention-day","zped-music-player"],"id":110082,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","civilization","forgiveness","friendship","grace","hope","humanity","integrity","intelligence","love","moving-on-and-letting-go","philosophy","society","spirituality"],"id":114958,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a period of great enlightenment, or to our ruin. The choice is yours.","author":"Guy T. Simpson Jr.","tags":["agape","agape-love","choice","humanity","inspirational","love","potential","potential-for-greatness","value"],"id":122704,"author_id":"Guy+T.+Simpson+Jr."},{"text":"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["african-americans","agape-love","american-history","black-history-month","civil-rights-movement","compassion-heals-lives","conflict-resolution","courage","dreams","faith","famous-","famous-speeches","great-leaders","hope","human-rights-day","humanity","i-have-a-dream-speech","leadership","love","martin-luther-king-day","martin-luther-king-jr","mlk-day","mlkdream50","national-history-day","nonviolence","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","police-reform","police-shootings","spiritual-visions","spirituality","strength","voting-rights-act-of-1965"],"id":127303,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape","agape-love","community","compassion","existence","history","human-nature","human-rights-day","humanity-and-society","love","man-s-inhumanity-to-man","mankind","peace","philosophy","police-reform","police-shootings","social-responsibility","spirituality","stop-killing-each-other","war","wearedallas","wearehumanity","wisdom","world-suicide-prevention-day"],"id":165937,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}