{"quotes":[{"text":"The real tragedy of life is not the fear of darkness, but it is to conform and follow the darkness in spite of fear.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["conformity","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","fear-of-darkness","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","tragedy-of-life","what-is-the-tragedy-of-life"],"id":518,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"We strive toward the middle, and we run from ourselves.","author":"Chris Matakas","tags":["conformity","individuality","meaning","purpose","self"],"id":2466,"author_id":"Chris+Matakas"},{"text":"What I’m starting to realize is that when you conform, people are not accepting you for who you are. They’re accepting you for who they think you are.","author":"Kaiylah Muhammad","tags":["acceptance","conformity","inspirational","self-improvement"],"id":2594,"author_id":"Kaiylah+Muhammad"},{"text":"It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["beggar","begging","conformity","generosity","good-will","human-nature","making-money","money","philanthropy","poverty"],"id":2924,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. . . . The force of character is cumulative.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["character","conformity","life"],"id":6428,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Lord, please protect me from Your people.","author":"Rosaria Champagne Butterfield","tags":["conformity","hypocrisy","legalism"],"id":7309,"author_id":"Rosaria+Champagne+Butterfield"},{"text":"Without their uniforms, they were probably nobodies, rejects. Give a man a uniform. Give him a few sparkly badges, a purpose, a gun ... And suddenly, he was no longer just another kid trying to make it through life without being ridiculed. Suddenly, he was a part of something. Something important. Something powerful. Something greater than he could ever be on his own. It was amazing how empowering the group could be.","author":"Kelseyleigh Reber","tags":["conformity","conformity-and-attitude","empowerment","group-dynamics","group-mentality","group-think","groupthink","in-group-politics","life","life-lessons","soldiers","war"],"id":8256,"author_id":"Kelseyleigh+Reber"},{"text":"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.","author":"Jon Krakauer","tags":["conformity","life","novelty","security"],"id":9770,"author_id":"Jon+Krakauer"},{"text":"The greatest obstacle in understanding the universe is the conformity and fear of truth.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["buddha","conformity","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","fear-of-truth","gandhi","inspirational","miraboli","oscar-wilde","philosophy","quotes","tagore","understanding-the-universe"],"id":12067,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"We are free to live the life we have imagined, not the life imagined for us.","author":"Chris Matakas","tags":["conformity","freedom","individuality","self"],"id":13036,"author_id":"Chris+Matakas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":269,"pages":27,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}