{"quotes":[{"text":"The smaller the creature, the bolder its spirit.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["animals","beings","bold","bolder","boldness","boldness-and-attitude","brave","creature","creatures","critters","living-things","natural-design","naturalism","nature","science","size","small","spirit","suzy-kassem","wildlife","wisdom"],"id":55780,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Imagine, if you will:A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, accompanied by its rather dysfunctional family of nine deceptively ordinary-looking planets. During its enormously long lifetime many beings had named it from the far ends of distant telescopes, including it into numerous star clusters and constellations as they were perceived from their vantage points. Once, or maybe twice, creatures simply looked up into their own skies to name it from their own now long dead and deserted worlds. In more recent times, beings from a world that orbited a different sun far away gave it a name too – creatures that called themselves Human, who travelled here and settled on one of its inner planets. The planet they chose to make a new home on? They called that Deanna. They called the star Ramalama.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["a","accompanied","and","as","beings","by","called","chose","constellations","creatures","darkness","deceptively","deserted-worlds","different","distant-telescopes","during","human","imagine","into","many","name","nine","numerous","of","on","one","planets","points","ramalama","simply","somewhere","space","star","themselves","they","times","to","too","twice","vantage","will"],"id":64193,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all the seriousness we learned / and connect with every atom to create / breathtaking beauty with graceful ease.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["atom","beauty","beings","breathtaking","comic","cosmic","create","ease","game","graceful","laugh","learned","self","seriousness"],"id":108746,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["beings","beings","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","other-beings","respect","respectful","respectful-of-others","respecting","respecting-others","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":114803,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"There is only one way to be a respectful being and the way for this is very simple: Respect other beings!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["beings","beings","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","other-beings","respect","respectful","respectful-of-others","respecting","respecting-others","turkish-aphorisms","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-sayings","turkish-thinkers","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":114803,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Humans are actually spirit beings who each possess a mind and a body and what we do with them is entirely up to us.","author":"Vaughan Jones","tags":["beings","energy","human","spirit","thiught","thought"],"id":159469,"author_id":"Vaughan+Jones"},{"text":"I no longer feel any allegiance to these monsters called human beings, despise being one myself.","author":"Suzanne Collins","tags":["allegiance","beings","human","humanity"],"id":162989,"author_id":"Suzanne+Collins"},{"text":"Compassion for humanity begins with compassion and respect for all beings.","author":"Jeffrey A. White","tags":["animals","beings","compassion","humanity","respect"],"id":185336,"author_id":"Jeffrey+A.+White"},{"text":"We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and count. We can preserve food for lifetimes, and in times of crisis, we can find ways to ensure our survival. With each passing generation, our sphere of control of our existence is larger. What if the earth is hit by an asteroid or there is no way to stop global warming? We look to colonize other planets. The fate of our species, in a few years, will not be tied to the fate of the earth. Our home planet must be cared for ... But as we go interplanetary and then interstellar, our control on our lives and the evolution of our species grows. As far as we know, we are the only species that has a say in the development of its future.","author":"Tarun Betala","tags":["beings","build","care","control","count","crisis","earth","eat","estimate","evolution","exist","existence","future","global-warming","human","interstellar","life","lifetime","live","planet","planets","predict","preserve","save","species","survival","survive","think","write"],"id":214145,"author_id":"Tarun+Betala"},{"text":"The Answer is that I am afraid...Afraid of Connection with human beingsAfraid of Being AloneAfraid of be with my opinion.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["alone","being","beings","connection","human","opinion"],"id":220406,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}