{"quotes":[{"text":"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["africa","beaming","church","den","eradicating-darkness","instead","jesus","light","place","robbers","unfortunately"],"id":3505,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control.","author":"Josh Stern","tags":["beaming","bladder","confidence","control","humor","life","matter-mind"],"id":53614,"author_id":"Josh+Stern"},{"text":"Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","appearance","appearances","as-happy-as-a-clam","beaming","beatific","blissful","blithe","buoyant","carefree","cheerful","cheery","chirpy","content","contented","deceive","deception","delighted","ecstatic","elated","euphoric","exhilarated","exultant","first-impression","first-impressions","funny","gleeful","gratified","grinning","happiness","happy","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","impression","impressions","in-a-good-mood","in-good-spirits","in-seventh-heaven","jocular","jocund","joke","jokes","jolly","jovial","joy","joyful","joyous","jubilant","jumping-for-joy","lighthearted","looks","merry","on-a-high","on-cloud-nine","on-top-of-the-world","over-the-moon","overjoyed","pleased","pretend","pretense","radiant","rapturous","satire","satisfied","smiling","sunny","thrilled","tickled-pink","unhappiness","unhappy","untroubled","walking-on-air"],"id":120243,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?Watch my mouth grin wide and see,How quick your lips smile back at me!","author":"Richelle E. 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