{"quotes":[{"text":"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["binding","connect","connecting-people","defining","definitions","division","doubts","fears","learning-to-love","love","mindfulness","oneness","rasheed-ogunlaru","separation","the-heart","the-mind","thinking","thought","wisdom"],"id":210,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could understand how some people just gave up. This darkness was overwhelming.","author":"J.M. Northup","tags":["connect","darkness","hope"],"id":1140,"author_id":"J.M.+Northup"},{"text":"Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.","author":"Kat Lahr","tags":["aware","change","connect","divine","earth","enlightenment","evolve","fear","growth","growth-and-development","insights","life","meditation","prayer","promised","purpose","reflection","species","suffering","understanding"],"id":5639,"author_id":"Kat+Lahr"},{"text":"Audiences will admire your character’s strength but connect with them through their weakness.","author":"Don Roff","tags":["admire","audience","character","character-flaw","connect","empathy","inspirational","strength","weakness","writing","writing-advice","writing"],"id":5734,"author_id":"Don+Roff"},{"text":"Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects.","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["connect","education","invest-in-yourself","knowledge","learn","money","self-hell","self-help","self-loathe","self-love"],"id":11630,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"He who stands by his heart has God in him. Our conscience is what unites us with God.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["connect","connects","conscience","conscience-and-attitude","creator","doing-right","ethics","faith","god","heart","hearts","light","right","standing-up","stands-by-his-heart","truth","unite","unites"],"id":22314,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication it can really connect people. ","author":"Bruno Maag","tags":["people","why","connect "],"id":22989,"author_id":"Bruno+Maag"},{"text":"Refuse to be isolated. Your accomplishments are patronized by people who would get interest in them. When you don’t get connected, how will you get to know those people?","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accomplish","accomplishment","connect","connection","food-for-thought","friends","interest","isolated","israelmore-ayivor","network","networking","patronize","people","refusal","refuse"],"id":23487,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We are all lost, so lost, vulnerable and insecure. We are separated from love at birth, we are separated from God, from each other. All we want, all we yearn for is to connect.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","birth","coming-together","community","connect","family","friends","god","harmony","insecure","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lost","love","lover","one-love","one-world","oneness","relate","reunion","separated","separation","together","togetherness","understand","union","unity","unity-poems","vulnerable"],"id":32336,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.","author":"Ann Brashares","tags":["life","people","connect "],"id":34194,"author_id":"Ann+Brashares"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":75,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}