{"quotes":[{"text":"True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["being-real","depth","flaws","friendship","honesty","relationships","shallowness","soulmates","true-friends","truth","vanity"],"id":15961,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["authentic","be-yourself","being-real","caring","courage","exposing-fears","feeling-deeply","healers","healing","networking","no-fear","raw","real","real-self","relatable","sharing"],"id":22431,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Do you really think all angels are sweet and gentle? You must have forgot that the front lines of the War in Heaven were littered with bold women that had something to say.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["angels","being-real","bold","honesty","outspoken","tenacity","truth","war-in-heaven"],"id":26716,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Who we are is who we ACTUALLY are. It's never who we create in order for people to see. You might really hate who you actually are, so then you create a sub-genus type of yourself for other people to see. But that never changes who you are. The sub-genus type won't change your genus. The only way we change who we are is by looking at ourselves in the mirror long enough to make us vomit over our disgusting waywardness and long enough to fall in love with our strengths. But you can't just fall in love with your strengths. You also need to vomit over your hypocrisies and all of your other bullshit. And you can't just vomit, either. You also have to clean it up and embrace yourself afterwards. This is how you change your genus.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["be-better","be-real","becoming-better","being-real","change","change-yourself","genuineness","guidance","hypocrisy","hypocrite","inspirational","real","real-talk","the-human-condition","wisdom"],"id":73259,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"People decide they like one another, based upon the color of their shells that they wear on the outside of them. And then they decide to leave one another, based upon the color of their souls that is who they really are underneath the shell. I think it should be the other way around. I think people should decide they like one another, based upon the color of their souls and then decide to leave one another if they run into the shells. But then it's not even that. What if they loved the soul and then broke down each others' shells when they ran into them? Then nobody would leave anybody and everybody would know what love means.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["being-genuine","being-real","being-transparent","genuine","how-to-be-real","inspirational","the-evolving-human","the-meaning-of-love","true-love","what-s-wrong-with-humanity","what-s-wrong-with-society","wisdom"],"id":97815,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"Gratitude is one of the most powerful human emotions. Once expressed, it changes attitude, brightens outlook, and broadens our perspective.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["attitude-of-gratitude","attitude-of-gratitude-grateful","being-happy","being-positive","being-real","being-realistic","broaden","broaden-horizons","broaden-the-mind","broadening-of-knowledge","broadening-the-mind","broadens","changes","changes-in-life","changes-in-thought","changes-in-your-life","changes-of-our-lives","contentment","emotions","emotions-and-attitude","emotions-and-control","emotions-communication","emotions-control-people","emotions-inspiration","emotions","emotions-that-bind","enough","expressed","germany-kent","germany-kent","germany-kent","grateful","grateful-attitude","grateful-heart","grateful-outlook","grateful","grateful-soul","gratefulness","gratefulness","gratitude","gratitude-attitude","gratitude-happiness-inner-peace","gratitude-is-a-choice","gratitude-life-happiness-success","gratitude","gratitude-works","hope-guru","human","human-being","human-condition","human-development","human-emotions","human-nature","humanity-and-society","living-with-joy","more-than-enough","outlook","outlook-and-attitude","outlook-in-life","peace","peace-of-mind","perspective","perspective-on-life","perspectives","perspectives-on-gratitude","powerful","powerful-people","powerful","powerful-women","powerful-words","the-hope-guru","the-moment"],"id":106197,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["acceptance","accountability","adversity","anger","apolgies","arrogance","authentic","being-free","being-real","being-wrong","caring","character","choices","confessing","denial","doing-wrong","freedom","hardened-hearts","honesty","honor","honorable","humble","humility","integrity","mistakes","moving-forward","new-life","not-caring","pride","proud","repentence","sinning","starting-over","truth"],"id":110617,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Being a writer makes you immortal.","author":"Tamara Stamenkovic","tags":["being-real","believe","immortality","poetry","truth","writer","yourself"],"id":138378,"author_id":"Tamara+Stamenkovic"},{"text":"Let's burn our masks at midnightand as flickering flames ascend,under the witness of star-clouds,let us vow to reclaim our true selves.Done with hiding and weary of lying,we'll reconcile without and within.Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns,we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn;blinking at the blazing, wondrous colorswe somehow failed to notice before.","author":"John Mark Green","tags":["authentic-self","authenticity","being-real","burn","carpe-diem","inspiration","inspirational","masks","motivational","motivational","real","true-self","true-selves"],"id":143959,"author_id":"John+Mark+Green"},{"text":"Acceptance' is a very important word in our lives. People drive themselves into madness and death thinking about the chasm that exists between their ideals and their actual reality that they are living. There must be a balance between improvement of one's self and one's circumstances and the acceptance of reality. There is a beautiful dance that one must learn, which involves embracing the reality of your life as you would embrace a Latin dance partner on the ballroom floor, and moving that partner (your reality) in graceful strides, towards where you want to be situated, on that dance floor. If you dance with no partner (your current reality), you will arrive at your destination empty. Empty. That is, if you ever arrive at all. But when you dance with that partner, embracing and accepting it for all of its flaws and its redeeming qualities, you will be able to move across that dance floor as a full, whole person. Wherever you end up stopping in that ballroom, you will stop there as a whole person, not an empty one. So, accept the mistakes that have been done unto you and the mistakes that you have done. Accept the fact that you didn't grow up perfectly and you are not perfect now. Accept, embrace, love the people who are given to you to love. And love yourself just as you are.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["acceptance","attaining-goals","being-real","guidance","inspirational-quites","life-and-living","reality-of-life","successful-life","successful-living","wisdom","words-of-wisdom"],"id":147773,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":40,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}