{"quotes":[{"text":"What's in a life without Camaraderie? For setting sail on a ship with a band of merry brothers by your side is much more gratifying than drifting aimlessly on a boat lost alone at sea.","author":"Saim .A. Cheeda","tags":["aimless","alone","band","boat","brothers","camaraderie","companionship","drifting","friendship","fulfillment","gratifying","happiness","life","lost","merry","sail","sea","setting-sail","ship"],"id":10039,"author_id":"Saim+.A.+Cheeda"},{"text":"Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.","author":"Michael Morpurgo","tags":["brotherhood","brothers","charlie","comfort","love","private","tommo"],"id":14139,"author_id":"Michael+Morpurgo"},{"text":"I have given my word that only death will take me from you.","author":"Philippa Gregory","tags":["brothers","death","family","life","love","war"],"id":15992,"author_id":"Philippa+Gregory"},{"text":"If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope.","author":"Nathan Filer","tags":["brothers","mental-illness","psychology","schizophrenia"],"id":20620,"author_id":"Nathan+Filer"},{"text":"We don't even know we are brothers and sisters.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["brothers","family","humanity","mankind","relations","sisters"],"id":21817,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["brothers","devil","divide","peace","people","sisters","unity"],"id":24734,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"My God. Johannes, are you saying that you’re accepting this task because I asked you?’ Cabal did not reply. Instead he found a loose thread on the eiderdown and fiddled distractedly with it. Horst sat on the side of the bed, embraced his brother around the shoulders with one arm, and rubbed the top of his head with the knuckles of the other. ‘Horst!’ snapped Cabal. ‘I am no longer eight years old!’ Horst kissed him on the top of the head. ‘You’ll always be my little brother, Johannes, even if you look older than me now.","author":"Jonathan L. Howard","tags":["brothers","family","love"],"id":26824,"author_id":"Jonathan+L.+Howard"},{"text":"Jesus was a man of love, of immense compassion. He loved this earth, the people, the threes, because that is the way to love God. God is life. Jesus is very life-affirmative. He says total yes to life. When you look into the eyes of each being that you meet, you meet God. Everybody is an incarnation of God - the threes, the flowers, the rocks, the animals, the people and the mountains. Love the people, love the threes, love the animals - and through the love you meet God. All are brothers here, because God is one. The threes, the flowers, the birds and the rocks are all your brothers, because they all come from the one source. If you are not reconciled with the world, you cannot pray to God. Prayer is only possible when you are in harmony with existence. The whole existence is your brother. The first step for prayer is to be reconciled with your brother. And your brother means all beings. Jesus is a celebration of being, a celebration of life. If you deny life, you deny God. If you say no to life, you say no to God, because God is life. To understand Jesus, you have to understand that life is God. If you say yes to life, you will feel a prayer arising in your heart, a yes arising in your being. The ego is a no to life, the ego is a separation from life. The inner being is a yes to life. The inner being is a deep yes and acceptance of life. Saying yes bridges you with the whole. It makes you a part of the whole. Saying yes will make you more and more spiritual. Jesus whole message is yes. The word 'amen' means yes. You will never meet God, you will meet human beings, animals, stones and threes. You can love God through other human beings, through threes, through stones and through animals. And when you have learnt to love God through all his forms - then only love changes into prayer.","author":"Swami Dhyan Giten","tags":["acceptance","animals","brothers","christianity","compassion","earth","ego","flowers","god","jesus","joy","life","love","meditation","mountains","prayer","relationships","religion","rocks","spirituality","truth"],"id":31994,"author_id":"Swami+Dhyan+Giten"},{"text":"Chip, I know you don't understand this, but I'd take it as a personal favor if you'd stop trying to marry your mother off to my brothers.","author":"Susan Elizabeth Phillips","tags":["brother","brothers","favor","marriage","marry","mother"],"id":34235,"author_id":"Susan+Elizabeth+Phillips"},{"text":"He turned and sauntered out of my cell, knowing I would do exactly what he said--just like I always did when he threatened with the life of my brother.","author":"Heidi Tankersley","tags":["brothers","love","loyalty","science-fiction-romance","young-adult-science-fiction"],"id":34535,"author_id":"Heidi+Tankersley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":135,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}