{"author":"Dan Pearce","author_id":"Dan+Pearce","total_quotes":98,"quotes":[{"text":"Dads. Do your faces light up when you first see your child in the morning or when you come home from work? Do you not understand that a child’s entire sense of value can revolve around what they see in your face when you first see them?","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["anger","arguing","break","child","children","dads","fathers","happiness","hurt","kindness","labeling","love","parenting","parents","praise","words","yelling"],"id":905,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"As much as I don’t want it to be true, the reasons I don’t do something define me as a person even more so, perhaps, than the reasons I do something.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["charity","doing-the-right-thing","judging","judging-others","kindness","love","loving-others"],"id":2416,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"Most rules are made by people with no authority who want to control and limit you from reaching your true potential. Ignore them, break their rules, and wave at them as you soar past them to greatness.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["breaking-rules","greatness","keeping-rules","rules","self-empowerment"],"id":7529,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"Be a little less obsessed with how I live my life and a little more obsessed with how you live your own.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["judging-others","judgments","obsession","pressure","pressuring-others"],"id":19774,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"We all have to escape from this thing called life sometimes. Maybe we use substances to do it. Maybe we use religion. Maybe we use exercise. Maybe we use anger. But we all have to do it. *How* we do it is what defines us.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["anger","defining-yourself","drugs","escape","escape-from-reality","escaping-life","religion"],"id":29087,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"One of the greatest tragedies I can think of is for a person to die having never fully questioned the life he was born into.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["authenticity","being-bornyourself","beliefs","questioning-religion","questioning-the-rules"],"id":29328,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"Do you love yourself? The test is simple. Do you look at others and see anything besides another beautiful human being? Do you see somebody who is more beautiful or less beautiful than you? If so, look down a little deeper and ask yourself why. It may be painful. The whys usually are. Do it anyway.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["beautiful","beauty","heart","judgment","judgmental-people","love","people","self-esteem","self-love","self-mastery"],"id":35970,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"When you do talk to people, share what you are. Stop focusing on all the things that you aren’t. Stop focusing on all of the physical features that you think people won’t like about you. Stop focusing on your inabilities or lack of talent. Instead, focus on those physical features that you know people already love about you. Focus on your abilities and the talents that you do have. You have been blessed with all of the above, and that makes you worth getting to know in my book.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["communication","confidence","friendliness","making-friends","self-esteem","self-worth","value"],"id":40918,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I’m in.Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get over this weird need to be morally superior to me and to the other people in this world.And let me be imperfect. I assure you, my imperfections drive me to improve.Let me love myself. I assure you, loving myself despite my faults will only make me a better person.Let me be my own judge. I assure you, I’ll be more fair and just than you ever will.Let me be the owner of my own intentions. I assure you, there isn’t another soul on earth who knows what my real intentions are but me.Love and acceptance despite ongoing and glaring imperfection is all I’ve ever tried to attain with this blog. For me. For you. For everyone. And I’ll never stop.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["fault","growth","imperfection","improvement","improving","judging-others","judgment","love","perfection","weakness"],"id":43327,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"},{"text":"What haunts me far more than anything I’ve ever done are the things I haven’t done.","author":"Dan Pearce","tags":["living-life-to-the-fullest","overcoming-the-past","past-regrets","regrets"],"id":49068,"author_id":"Dan+Pearce"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":98,"pages":10,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}