{"quotes":[{"text":"The purpose of any healthy relationship is to find someone that will magnify your life's experiences, not tolerate it or become a spectator of it.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["caring","cheering-section","dreamers","enthusiastic","excited-about-life","experiences","feeling-alive","fun","happy","hobbies","interested","like-minds","planners","positive","relationships-101","same-goals","shares","sidelines","stayingpositiveu-com","talents","tolerating"],"id":23783,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...","author":"Richard Wright","tags":["epiphany","feeling-alive","fighting-for-self","realization","self-worth"],"id":36676,"author_id":"Richard+Wright"},{"text":"And then, that feeling comes again when you seem invincible and totally awesome. You simply can't hold it in and you just smile to everyone you come across; infectiously, they have no choice but to smile back. You are more than convinced in your guts that something beautifully indescribable is coming your way. You just drown yourself in the feeling of awesomeness. Faith, probably . . . Or the hands of providence?","author":"Ufuoma Apoki","tags":["awesome","awesomeness","beautiful-feeling","conviction","faith","feeling","feeling-alive","feeling-invincible","guts","invincibility","invincible","providence","smile"],"id":42998,"author_id":"Ufuoma+Apoki"},{"text":"Well, you know, that was the worst of it - this suspicion of not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["africa","feeling-alive","feeling-human","humanity"],"id":68143,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"A smile can express more than a thousand feelings, but to me The Unknown, its the deadliest weapon I was created with and have control over.","author":"Ryan Leonard","tags":["feeling","feeling-alive","feelings","smile","smiles","weapon","weapons"],"id":69372,"author_id":"Ryan+Leonard"},{"text":"We talk a lot about the five senses: vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. I would add one more…imagination.","author":"Wes Adamson","tags":["feeling-alive","hearing","imagination","imaginative-senses","smelling","taste","touch","vision"],"id":106565,"author_id":"Wes+Adamson"},{"text":"Happiness: the feeling of being alive.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["feeling-alive","happiness"],"id":146661,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Pain was the only sign to her that she was alive and could feel emotion.","author":"Jeane Westin","tags":["elizabeth-i","emotions","feeling-alive","pain"],"id":176034,"author_id":"Jeane+Westin"},{"text":"That was the first time I did coke.My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that.","author":"Benjamin Alire Sáenz","tags":["being-high","coke","drugs","feeling-alive"],"id":182370,"author_id":"Benjamin+Alire+S%C3%A1enz"},{"text":"I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.","author":"Lee Smith","tags":["feel-everything","feeling-alive","on-agate-hill","romeo-and-juliet","youth"],"id":183017,"author_id":"Lee+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}