{"quotes":[{"text":"Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion sufficient enough to love and save each other.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","assault-weapons","believing-in-love","coexistence","compassion","creative-minds","creative-thinking","diversity","drones","empowerment-and-attitude","ending-gun-violence","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","grace","great-power","gun-laws","gun-safety","indviduality","jihad","jihadism-and-love","love-for-humanity","nations","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","people","philosophy-of-compassion","philosophy-of-grace","power","salvation","spirituality","suicide","suicide-bombers","sustainable-living","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","waging-peace","war","wisdom"],"id":8382,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"There is no envy, jealousy, or hatred between the different colors of the rainbow. And no fear either. Because each one exists to make the others’ love more beautiful.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","angel-art","anti-racism","beauty","beauty-in-nature","believing-in-love","brexit","choosing-love-over-fear","choosing-love-over-hate","coexistence","color","community","compassion","compassion-saves-lives","courage-to-love","cross-culturalism","cultural-literacy","demographic-shifts","demographics","diversity","election-year-politics","european-union","grace","hate-crimes","hatred","hope-for-humanity","immigration","jealousy","love-for-humanity","millennial-generation","millennials","mindfulness","multiculturalismo","multiculturalità","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-love","practicing-peace","race-and-racism","rainbow","rainbows","regrexit","spirit-of-cooperation","spiritual-philosophy","spirituality","sustainable-humanity","teaching-diversity","teaching-multiculturalism","we-are-charleston","we-are-humanity","we-are-orlando","wearecharleston","weareorlando","wisdom","xenophobia"],"id":36340,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"I love and care for everyone because I know the pain of being unloved and uncared.","author":"Luffina Lourduraj","tags":["care","care-and-love","insightful","inspirational-life","inspirational","inspiring","love","love-for-humanity","love-for-others","love-for-the-world","love","love","love","love-and-sayings","pain","pain","painful","positive-life","positive-thoughts","postive-thinking","spiritual-development","spiritual-life","spiritual","spirituality","take-care","uncaring","unlove","unloveable","unloved","unlovely","unloving"],"id":40634,"author_id":"Luffina+Lourduraj"},{"text":"Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["advocate-for-compassion","advocating-for-compassion","belife-in-humanith","coexistence","confronting-change","contemporary-poetry","courage","creative-arts","cultural-arts","diversity-in-literature","diversity-in-publishing","humility","inspiration","inspiring","leaderhsip","leadership-strategies","literature","love-for-humanity","mlk-day","motivation","national-poetry-month","nonviolence-jihadism","npm17","poets-for-change","positive-motivation","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","practicing-compassion","practicing-peace","self-empowerment","sorrow","speaking-truth-to-power","strategic-leadership","wisdom","world-poetry-day","writing-poetry"],"id":159396,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Never ever seek for gratefulness from mankind, you shall always see ungratefulness. Do what you must do as a solemn duty and that is what you have to do!","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["a-good-heart","appreciation","dignity","dishonesty","dishonor","do-what-you-must-do","expecting-others-to-forgive-you","expecting-thank-thank-you","life","love-for-all","love-for-humanity","pain","rejection","solemn-duty","thank-you","thankfulness","thanksgiving","ungrateful-people","ungratefulness"],"id":213003,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Discourse and critical thinking are essential tools when it comes to securing progress in a democratic society. But in the end, unity and engaged participation are what make it happen.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["2016-presidential-election","civic-duty","cognitive-awareness","conscious-awareness","conscious-mind","consciousness","crowd-sourcing","democracy","democracy-in-action","democratic-societies","dialogue","diversity","donald-trump","engaement","free-speech","freedom","gun-legislation","gun-safety","hillary-clinton","human-rights","love-for-humanity","maintaining-faith","making-a-difference","mindfulness","national-history-day","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","participation","police-culture","police-reform","police-shootings","political-debate","political-dialogues","political-discourse","political-divisions","political-philosophy","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","racial-violence","social-philosophy","sustainable-humanity","unity","voters","voters-and-voting","voting","waging-peace"],"id":301681,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","depression","humanity","inspirational","love-for-humanity","philosophy","quotes"],"id":317981,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"How blind is the delusion that the greatness of a man is measured by his living; rather, it’s always by his giving.","author":"Christian Hunt","tags":["christian-living","christian","christianity","compassion","delusion","greatness","greatness","life-and-living","love-for-humanity","love-for-others","religion-spirituality","sacrifice-for-others","sacrifice"],"id":324652,"author_id":"Christian+Hunt"},{"text":"Individual cultures and ideologies have their appropriate uses but none of them erase or replace the universal experiences, like love and weeping and laughter, common to all human beings.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["agape-love","angel-art","anti-racism","antiracism","appropriate-application","coexistence","common-ground","cultural-boundaries","cultural-demographics","cultural-differences","cultural-heritage","cultural-literacy","cultural-relativism","demographics","diversity","ending-violent-jihad","ending-war","faith-in-humanity","faith-in-love","human-beings","human-condition","humanity","ideologies","ideology","ideology-religion-war-compromise","interfaith-dialogue","joy","joy-of-life","laughter","love-for-humanity","multiculturalism","multiculturalismo","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","peacism","philosophy-for-millennials","race-relations","racial-division","racial-identity","social-philosophy","sociological-imagination","spiritual-philosophy","universal","universal-love","universal-truths","universality","waging-peace","weeping"],"id":377067,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Simple shifts in points of view can open doors to expansions of consciousness as easily as rigid dispositions can close hearts and minds to such elevated awareness. It generally depends on whether you allow fear and violence to rule your actions or whether you give wisdom, courage, and compassion the authority to do so.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["compassion","compassion-heals-lives","courage","courageousness","cultural-perspectives","expanded-consciousness","faith-in-humanity","fear","love-for-humanity","metacognition","nonviolent-conflict-resolution","points-of-views","police-reform","postered-poetics-by-aberjhani","violence","wisdom","world-suicide-prevention-day","xenophobia"],"id":399372,"author_id":"Aberjhani"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}