{"quotes":[{"text":"Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","brownie-point","candle","family","friendliness","friendly","friends","friendship","hate","heart","hello","hellos","human-family","illuminate","indifference","kind","kindness","light","love","loving-others","man","mankind","mirrored","mirroring","neighbor","peace","project","radiate","reflect","reflection","relationships","reward","shine","society","spiritual","spiritual-reward","stranger","truth","united","unity","world-peace"],"id":4563,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"I have realized; it is during the times I am far outside my element that I experience myself the most. That I see and feel who I really am, the most! I think that's what a comet is like, you see, a comet is born in the outer realms of the universe! But it's only when it ventures too close to our sun or to other stars that it releases the blazing 'tail' behind it and shoots brazen through the heavens! And meteors become sucked into our atmosphere before they burst like firecrackers and realize that they're shooting stars! That's why I enjoy taking myself out of my own element, my own comfort zone, and hurling myself out into the unknown. Because it's during those scary moments, those unsure steps taken, that I am able to see that I'm like a comet hitting a new atmosphere: suddenly I illuminate magnificently and fire dusts begin to fall off of me! I discover a smile I didn't know I had, I uncover a feeling that I didn't know existed in me... I see myself. I'm a shooting star. A meteor shower. But I'm not going to die out. I guess I'm more like a comet then. I'm just going to keep on coming back.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["astronomy","challenges","comets","comfort-zone","courage","extraordinary","growing","illuminate","inspirational-life","inspirational","know-thyself","learning","life-and-living","meteor-showers","meteors","outside-my-element","self-awareness","self-discovery","self-growth","self-worth","shooting-stars","the-universe"],"id":31872,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Doubt is the first ray of illumination.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["bangambiki","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","illuminate","illuminate-the-world","illuminati","illumination","illuminations","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom"],"id":40409,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Follow the path that leads to understanding. Only then, will you illuminate the way for others. Once you open your mind and gain knowledge, truth, you'll leave the darkness and enter into the light of wisdom.","author":"Amaka Imani Nkosazana","tags":["belief","believe","commitment","darkness","desire","desires","earth","enlightenment","faith","focus","follow","following","gift","heaven","honesty","hope","illuminate","illumination","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","inspire","joy","knowledge","knowledge-of-self","lead","light","love","loving","man","mind","passion","path","people","places","question","quotes","success","talent","talk","things","time","treasure","truth","understanding","wisdom","wise","woman","world"],"id":53887,"author_id":"Amaka+Imani+Nkosazana"},{"text":"The sun kept dipping down into the ocean and the lights came on at the harbor, casting sudden shadows on the ground, illuminating the faces that were just a second ago silhouettes. The sky was golden and purple, the ocean a darker shade of violet.","author":"Adi Alsaid","tags":["golden","gorgeous","illuminate","ocean","pretty","setting","sky","sun","violet","visualize"],"id":64360,"author_id":"Adi+Alsaid"},{"text":"Revelations help us accept the things we need the most, expose the secrets we so desperately try to hide and illuminate the dangers all around us. But more than anything, revelations are windows into our true selves... Of the good and the evil and those wavering somewhere in between. But they have the ultimate power to destroy all that we cherish most.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["dangers","evil","good","illuminate","revelations","revenge","revenge-tv-series","secrets"],"id":80078,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"},{"text":"Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.","author":"Brandon Sanderson","tags":["bonfires","candle","deadly","destruction","embryonic","fire","flames","fragility","illuminate","kings","life","light","potency","potential","power","rampage","seeds","warmth"],"id":93872,"author_id":"Brandon+Sanderson"},{"text":"The only power which can illuminate you is your own mind! No other mind can lighten you if your mind insists to remain in the darkness! The fate of your fate is within you!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["fate","fates","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","illuminate","illuminated","illuminati","lighten","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","mind","mind","mind","power","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":95433,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"I spent all nightweaving a poem for you to wear. You look so beautifulwhen you wear my light.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beautiful","beauty","beloved","boyfriend","encourage","friend","girlfriend","harmony","husband","illuminate","in-love","inspiration","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","light","love","love-is-love","love-movement","love-poems","love-poetry","love","love-wins","lover","night","one-love","partner","poem","poet","poetess","poetry","poetry","positive","positivity","relationship","short-love-poems","short-poems","soul","soulmate","spend","spouse","sufi","sufism","union","unity","uplift","wear","weave","weaver","weaving","wife","write","writer","writing"],"id":100296,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["dark","darkness","direction","excuse","excuses","god","hope","illuminate","illumination","justification","justify","light","quit","quitter","quitting","rationalization","rationalize"],"id":105316,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}