{"quotes":[{"text":"We must all raise war against ignorance.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["danger","darkness","destruction","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","people","power","war"],"id":53,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.","author":"Jared Brock","tags":["dark-night-of-the-soul","darkness","depression","meaning","perseverance","purpose","reason","seasons","seasons-of-life","solomon"],"id":226,"author_id":"Jared+Brock"},{"text":"As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch of darkness to get through, but just like a tunnel, know that there is light and freedom at the end of it.","author":"Tiffany L. Jackson","tags":["darkness","journey","light","self-discovery","self-healing"],"id":490,"author_id":"Tiffany+L.+Jackson"},{"text":"You have a great light to illuminate the world.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["darkness","destiny","humanity","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","light","mission","motivation","purpose","servie","shine-your-light","uplifting","your-fate"],"id":648,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["adversity","darkness","greatness","inner-light","inner-strength","inspirational","inspirational","inspirational-for-men","inspirational-for-women","inspirational-motivation","life-lesson","life-lessons","life","life","life-and-sayings","light","light","motivation","motivational-inspirational","motivational","motivational-of-the-day","motivational","motivational-for-women","overcomer","overcoming-adversity","overcoming-challenges","overcoming-fear","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming","shine","shine-your-light","star","success"],"id":696,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["alchemy","darkness","eternal","life","light","poem","spiritual","spirituality","trust","trusting","wisdom","work"],"id":768,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"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":"Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["citizen","citizenship","danger","darkness","destruction","equality","fairness","god","ignorance","knowledge","life","light","mountain","opportunities","people","power","power-structure","restructure","structure"],"id":1160,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.","author":"Nicholas Trandahl","tags":["beauty","darkness","edgar-allan-poe","sorrow"],"id":1663,"author_id":"Nicholas+Trandahl"},{"text":"I sing to use the waiting,  My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house;  No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching,  We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang  To keep the dark away.","author":"Emily Dickinson","tags":["darkness","love","poetry","waiting"],"id":1837,"author_id":"Emily+Dickinson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":1990,"pages":199,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}