{"quotes":[{"text":"I shall treat the nature and power of the Affects, and the power of the Mind over them, by the same Method by which, in the preceding parts, I treated God and the Mind, and I shall consider human actions and appetites just as if it were a Question of lines, planes, and bodies.","author":"Baruch Spinoza","tags":["bodies","emotions","extension","god","human-being","mathematics","mind","natural-laws","nature","passions","thought","world"],"id":6960,"author_id":"Baruch+Spinoza"},{"text":"Believe in your dreams. Your passion will show you the way.","author":"Mani S. Sivasubramanian","tags":["believe-in-yourself","dream","dream-big","dreams","passion","passions"],"id":22459,"author_id":"Mani+S.+Sivasubramanian"},{"text":"To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.","author":"Bruce Crown","tags":["adulation","beauty","dante","forlorn","ink","paper","passions","string","violin","woman","wood"],"id":23420,"author_id":"Bruce+Crown"},{"text":"Never mistake the uncomfortable feeling of insecurity and the fear of the unknown with the Holy Ghost’s promptings. Sometimes those feelings are simply Satan keeping you stuck where you are because he knows you will have a half-life there. He knows that you will spend half of your life disconnected, discontented and convincing your mind of what its heart will never accept. He knows when you have settled, gave up and didn’t try. Inaction is his greatest weapon, while regret is his second.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anger","choices","comfort","commonsense","confusion","decisions","direction","disappointment","divorce","fear","feeling","feeling-the-spirit","found","freedom","full-potential","giving-up","goals","god","god-s-gift","god-s-plan","guardian-angel","healing","hearing","holy-ghost","inaction","knowing","legacy","life-missions","listening","living","lost","marriage","messages","passions","path","potential","prayer","promptings","relationships","satan","scared","seeing","self-propelled","sense","settling","stayingpositiveu-com","understanding","vision"],"id":31911,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.","author":"Marquis de Sade","tags":["conscience","nature","passions"],"id":40638,"author_id":"Marquis+de+Sade"},{"text":"We must read, mediate and affirm the writings of Holy Scriptures, to partake in the divine nature and overcome the struggles of life.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adversity","affirmations","attitude","behaviour","belief","believers","bible","books","challenges","choices","christian","christian-living","christianity-faith","courage","depression","despair","difficulties-of-life","disappointment","divine-intervention","education","educational-philosophy","emotional-health","faith","fear","fearless","forgiveness","grave-divine","habits","healing","healthy-lifestyle","holy-writings","hope","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","learner","learning","lesson-learnt","life-lesson","lifestyle","mediation","mercy","nature","overcomer","overcoming-obstacles","overcoming-pain","pain","passions","positive-mindset","positive-outlook","quotes","read","reading-books","reality-of-life","religion","self-awareness","self-development","self-reliance","spiritual-life","spirituality","strength-through-adversity","struggles","troubles","wise-words","writings"],"id":40790,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her queen and she hit me.”Though, he recalled, not sufficiently brutally to require that he tie her wrists together with his belt, force her to kneel and beat her until she toppled over sideways. She raised a strangely joyous face to him; the pallor of her skin and the almost miraculous lustre of her eyes startled and even awed him.","author":"Angela Carter","tags":["chess","logic","passions"],"id":42190,"author_id":"Angela+Carter"},{"text":"The gift is a grace of God.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["christian","gift","god","grace","motivational","passions","talents"],"id":42239,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Great things can be accomplished, if we passionately pursue our goals and dreams.","author":"Lailah GiftyAkita","tags":["dreams-inspirational","dreams","great-expectations","greater-glory","passion-for-life","passion-unleashed","passionate","passionate-life","passionate-living","passions","s"],"id":52082,"author_id":"Lailah+GiftyAkita"},{"text":"....Finally I see that it’s never been me, just a blanket that keeps you warm. Easily tossed alongwhen something flashier or someone prettier comes along. Your heart I held so carefully, I see, this was all just a game...","author":"Coco J. Ginger","tags":["breakup","breakups","friendship","games","i-love-him","i-love-you","love","love-affair","love-and-romance","love-story","lovers","passion","passions","played","player","unconditional"],"id":52222,"author_id":"Coco+J.+Ginger"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":110,"pages":11,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}