{"quotes":[{"text":"I want to remind us all that art is dangerous. I want to remind you of the history of artists who have been murdered, slaughtered, imprisoned, chopped up, refused entrance. The history of art, whether it's in music or written or what have you, has always been bloody, because dictators and people in office and people who want to control and deceive know exactly the people who will disturb their plans.And those people are artists. They're the ones that sing the truth. And that is something that society has got to protect. But when you enter that field, no matter whether that's Sonia's poetry or Ta-Nehisi's rather startlingly clear prose, it's a dangerous pursuit. Somebody's out to get you. You have to know it before you start, and do it under those circumstances, because it is one of the most important things that human beings do.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["art","inpiration"],"id":737,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"Who or what inspires you?'I must admit that I often read my own articles in scientific journals and inspire myself.","author":"Eoin Colfer","tags":["foaly","humour","inpiration","self-absorbed"],"id":73173,"author_id":"Eoin+Colfer"},{"text":"Marriage cannot thrive on left-over attention, it has to get your best effort!","author":"Ngina Otiende","tags":["christian","inpiration","marriage"],"id":73574,"author_id":"Ngina+Otiende"},{"text":"A strong woman will automatically stoptrying if she feels unwanted. She won't fix it or beg, she'll just walk away.","author":"chocolate socrates","tags":["deep","inpiration","life","quotes","woman"],"id":147081,"author_id":"chocolate+socrates"},{"text":"We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.","author":"Sharon Salzberg","tags":["compassion","inpiration","love","motivation","self-love"],"id":215929,"author_id":"Sharon+Salzberg"},{"text":"Loneliness of heartIn the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and fear...","author":"M.I. Ghostwriter","tags":["expression","inpiration","journaling","journey-in-life","love","love-hurts","poetry","words","words-of-wisdom"],"id":275519,"author_id":"M.I.+Ghostwriter"},{"text":"Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without passion is possible, but not desirable. Have you really lived at all if you have not lived with passion? Without it would a masterpiece be possible? I don’t think so. With purpose, cause and passion, there is no way the end you envision will not become the reality you live.","author":"Toni Sorenson","tags":["cause","inpiration","life","passion","purpose"],"id":296293,"author_id":"Toni+Sorenson"},{"text":"Are you aware of who you really are in relationship to the very God who created the Universe, who scattered the stars and aligned the planets? Only to those who remember and realize that they are literally spirit children of a God who knows and loves them, can the fire of refinement be welcome. Otherwise, pain and adversity are just that, pain and adversity. Fire doesn’t purify; it only burns.","author":"Toni Sorenson","tags":["adversity","faith","inpiration","life","trials"],"id":349595,"author_id":"Toni+Sorenson"},{"text":"A well-behaved person is not always well-dressed.","author":"Hussain Rasheed","tags":["human-nature","inpiration"],"id":352839,"author_id":"Hussain+Rasheed"},{"text":"And I wonder if Beethoven held his breaththe first time his fingers touched the keysthe same way a soldier holds his breaththe first time his finger clicks the trigger.We all have different reasons for forgetting to breathe.","author":"Andrea Gibson","tags":["breathing","inpiration","passion"],"id":395241,"author_id":"Andrea+Gibson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}