{"quotes":[{"text":"With dark raven paper and twinkling white ink, I wrote my heart in the night’s sky.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["alive","being-in-love","careers","caring","courtship","dating","dreams","exposed","expressed","family","feeling-deeply","feelings","friends","heart","hopes","i-love-you","living","love","moons","night","nightime","openess","poetry","poets","pose","prayers","prayers-of-the-heart","raw","relationships","romantics","sky","stars","wishes"],"id":4662,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["connectedness","innocence","life","oneness","openess","spirituality"],"id":40876,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"The very success of the internet itself is due to its openness, equality of opportunity and innovation. Platforms like Facebook itself would not have been created if Mr. Mark Zuckerberg was accessing the internet via free basics.","author":"Arzak Khan","tags":["equality","facebook","freedom-of-choice","freedom-of-expression","innovation","internet","openess"],"id":131911,"author_id":"Arzak+Khan"},{"text":"The real warriors in this world are the ones that see the details of another's soul. They see the transparency behind walls people put up. They stand on the battlefield of life and expose their heart's transparency, so other's can finish the day with hope. They are the sensitive souls that understand that before they could be a light they first had to feel the burn.","author":"Shannon L. 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Alder","tags":["conudrum","dark-angels","drama","humor","hypocrisy-in-everyone","hyprocritical","openess","paradox","ratting-yourself-out","rawness","self-discovery","self-realization"],"id":291071,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"It is through strength of character, not luck, do we form the predictable path of our future.","author":"Shannon L. 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