{"quotes":[{"text":"Plainly it isn't an exact science, despite it being a complex interaction of micro-decisions and corresponding thought; perhaps it doesn't always work and we pass by some potential soulmates like the proverbial ships in the night, never quite connecting. Then again, perhaps the system is tenacious and continues to run like a computer program on infinite loop, so that if at first you don't meet, you are drawn back together for another try.","author":"Simon Pegg","tags":["connections","fate","love","soulmates"],"id":185,"author_id":"Simon+Pegg"},{"text":"They say instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of clichés, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. However, who has not hung on a scripture, a quote, a statement, only to stumble upon the key phrase that brought all things to a turning point? The greatest sermons and speeches were pieced together by illuminating thoughts that powered men to surpass their own commonness. It is the sparkling magic of letters forming words, and those words colliding with passion, that makes statements into wisdom.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bits-of-wisdom","brevity-in-emotion","common","communication","connections","emotional-connections","instant-communication","letters","passion","philosophers","positive-thinking","punch","quotes","revelation","scribes","sermons-summarized","simplification","statements","summation-of-thought","technology","thinkers","to-the-point","wisdom","words","writers","writing-craft","writing"],"id":10213,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Every connection you create either helps or hurts you.","author":"Bernard Kelvin Clive","tags":["connections","friends","helping-others","people-relations","people-skills"],"id":20509,"author_id":"Bernard+Kelvin+Clive"},{"text":"If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["connectedness","connections","family","inspirational","inspire","life","soul","soul-family","tribe"],"id":24039,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"When you invite people to share in your miracle, you create future allies during rough weather.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["allies","church-members","collaboration","connections","coworkers","ensuring-the-future","family","friends","friendships","kids","love","networking","projects","relationships","spouse","strangers"],"id":25306,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Insanity is starting over a million times, expecting to feel the spark you never did the first time.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["boyfriend","career","choices","connections","do-overs","fights","friendships","girlfriend","makeup","marriage","projects","pursuits","relationships","restarting","sparks","spouse"],"id":27682,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don’t ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["business","connections","humor","irony","linkedin","networking","pun","relationships","rolodex"],"id":28731,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"-Let us celebrate the joy and sorrow, Sidip suddenly recited, -the wonder and mystery of all we see, so that we might live and learn as we were meant to. They say of stardust we are formed, that the ocean flows through our veins, and our thoughts are of quantum particles strung together by slender threads of charged ions. Therefore all things are connected, all things have spirit, you, me, the animals, plants, rocks, the oceans, planets, stars and the whole universe, these quantum particles are forming webs of awareness focusing at the centre where dwells the collective unconsciousness of all that has and ever will exist.","author":"Andrew James Pritchard","tags":["awareness","connections","life","universal-truths","wonderment"],"id":34064,"author_id":"Andrew+James+Pritchard"},{"text":"From a relationship perspective, givers build deeper and broader connections.","author":"Adam Grant","tags":["perspective","connections "],"id":41099,"author_id":"Adam+Grant"},{"text":"...And on my fourth morning in Naples, I woke up alone. There was a note on the table with the breakfast that Cinzia had quietly prepared for me. It read, 'It could never be. But that's why it will always be - perfectly divine. Cinzia' City Solipsism: A Short Story.","author":"Zack Love","tags":["attraction","connections","love-lost","memories","new-york-city","short-story","strangers","subway","zack-love"],"id":42029,"author_id":"Zack+Love"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":119,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}