{"quotes":[{"text":"Your exuberance, passion, mesmerizing voice, animated actions, and eyes full of dreamscaptured my attentionso completely, that I didn't feel the bitter taste of coffee.","author":"Vijaya Gowrisankar","tags":["actions","attention","bitter","captured","coffee","dreams","exuberance","eyes","mesmerizing","passion","taste","voice"],"id":41907,"author_id":"Vijaya+Gowrisankar"},{"text":"To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.","author":"J.M. Coetzee","tags":["animal-rights","consciousness","exuberance","human-sympathy","philosophy"],"id":79583,"author_id":"J.M.+Coetzee"},{"text":"My cheeks are red hot,my lip still trembles,because I sent my heartto speak; every word of itdelusional and awkward,an exuberance, an abrupt sound.That's how I spoke, oh, it stillshows on my hot cheeksI'm now carrying home.I look down at the snowand walk past many houses,past many hedges, many trees,the snow adorns hedge, tree and house.I walk on, staring downat the snow, on my cheeksnothing but red-hot memoryreminding me of my wild talk.","author":"Robert Walser","tags":["exuberance","heart","home","returning-home","speak","wild","words"],"id":217411,"author_id":"Robert+Walser"},{"text":"My mind feels like a race car on the track, getting faster and faster every time I pause to think or blink or try to focus on anything. Nothing can keep up to it, not the other cars, not my body, not anyone else in the bar. It’s a rush, pure exhilaration, and I’m having the time of my life. But instead of driving, I’m in the passenger seat, along for the ride, watching myself race around the track from my barstool.","author":"Shannon Mullen","tags":["bipolar-disorder","energy","exuberance","mania","mental-health","mental-illness"],"id":245742,"author_id":"Shannon+Mullen"},{"text":"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.","author":"Anne Sexton","tags":["exuberance","moderation","poetry"],"id":303271,"author_id":"Anne+Sexton"},{"text":"The longing for peace has essentially come from troubled minds, minds that are torturing themselves. For them, peace is a big commodity that they have to seek. If you are not using your mind for self-torture, why would you think of peace? Would you seek the exuberance of life or would you seek peace? Only if you have become an expert in self-torture, peace seems to be the greatest thing.","author":"Sadhguru","tags":["exuberance","mind","peace","torture"],"id":308738,"author_id":"Sadhguru"},{"text":"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["agony","anguish","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","as-happy-as-a-clam","beaming","beatific","bliss","blissful","blissfulness","blithe","blue","broken-hearted","buoyant","carefree","chagrin","cheerful","cheerfulness","cheerless","cheery","chirpy","content","contented","contentment","dejected","dejection","delight","delighted","depressed","depression","desolation","despair","despairing","despondency","despondent","disconsolate","dispirited","distress","doleful","dolefulness","down","down-at-the-mouth","down-in-the-dumps","down-in-the-mouth","downcast","downhearted","ecstasy","ecstatic","elated","elation","enjoyment","euphoria","euphoric","exhilarated","exhilaration","exuberance","exultant","face","faces","forlorn","funny","gaiety","glee","gleeful","gloom","gloominess","gloomy","glum","glumness","good-spirits","gratified","grief","grinning","happiness","happy","heartache","heartbroken","hilarious","hole","holes","humor","humorous","humour","hurting","impression","impressions","in-a-good-mood","in-good-spirits","in-seventh-heaven","jocular","jocund","joke","jokes","jollity","jolly","jovial","joviality","joy","joyful","joyfulness","joyless","joyous","jubilant","jubilation","jumping-for-joy","lighthearted","lightheartedness","long-faced","low-spirits","lugubrious","malaise","melancholy","merriment","merry","miserable","misery","morose","mournful","mournfulness","on-a-high","on-cloud-nine","on-top-of-the-world","opinion","opinions","over-the-moon","overjoyed","pain","pit","pits","pleased","pleasure","quotations","quotes","radiant","rapture","rapturous","sad","sadness","satire","satisfaction","satisfied","smiling","sorrow","sorrowful","suffering","sunny","the-blues","thrilled","tickled-pink","torment","transports-of-delight","tribulation","unhappiness","unhappy","untroubled","walking-on-air","well-being","woe","woebegone","woeful","wretchedness"],"id":410691,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Jaunting off together towards the bedroom doorway, they cast off their clothes, like caps at graduation.","author":"L.A. Kragie","tags":["exuberance","joy","play","romance"],"id":419741,"author_id":"L.A.+Kragie"},{"text":"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ('Give me more images').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["addiction","dullness","ennui","escape","exuberance","generate","give","gratified","here-and-now","iconic","imagery","images","inexorable","life","people","power","redemptive","respite","tick","trap"],"id":444672,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm,waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm likeworship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, theirsongs never cease. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914).","author":"John Muir","tags":["beauty","being","connectedness","environment","existence","exuberance","joy","nature","song"],"id":477386,"author_id":"John+Muir"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}