{"quotes":[{"text":"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","answer","ask","begin","better","betterment","compassion","compassionate","condition","conversations","converse","empathy","friend","friendship","good","hear","improvement","judge","judgement","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","know","knowledge","kojouri","listen","listener","love","love","lover","mindful","mindfulness","ourselves","quote","quotes","reply","reserve","respond","self","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","sincerely"],"id":1026,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.","author":"Isaac Marion","tags":["barrier","boulders","challenge","consider","conversation","converse","disabled","eloquence","eloquent","feelings","impediment","mouth","nothing","obstacle","path","ponder","say","speak","speech","talk","think","thoughts","unable","words"],"id":106798,"author_id":"Isaac+Marion"},{"text":"The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone. ","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["bore","boredom","boring","conversation","converse","dictate","fear","meditate","meditation","phobia","ramble","ramblers","relax","relaxation","silence","talk","talking","unwind","walk","walker","walking","walks"],"id":145235,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["begin","beginning","chats","connect","connection","connections","conversation","converse","food-for-thought","friend","friends","friendship","israelmore-ayivor","make-friends","new","new-people","people","relationship","strange","stranger","understand"],"id":153495,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"It comes down to this: If you want to be seen, heard and understood in the most genuine way possible, be open to the possiblity of vulnerability. Allow yourself to be open. I know it’s a scary place, a place very few people dare to venture, but just try it. Try moving the masks away and really looking at a person the next time they engaged in conversation with you.","author":"Leigh Hershkovich","tags":["conversation","converse","engage","hearing-voices","listen","listening","masks","vulnerability"],"id":189192,"author_id":"Leigh+Hershkovich"},{"text":"Be a good listener. With rapt attention, let every communication or conversation you have with your mentor, friends or even strangers be well understood.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["attention","chat","communicate","communication","communications","communicative-skills","companions","connections","conversation","converse","food-for-thought","friend","friendly","friends","friendship","good","good-listener","israelmore-ayivor","listen","listener","mentor","pay-attention","speak","speaking","strangers","talk","understand","understanding"],"id":214789,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts.","author":"Dark Jar Tin Zoo","tags":["communicate","communication","converse","dialogue","funny","humor","love","talking"],"id":287199,"author_id":"Dark+Jar+Tin+Zoo"},{"text":"Every time I converse with you, I feel closer to home.","author":"Evy Michaels","tags":["converse","friendship","home","love"],"id":410001,"author_id":"Evy+Michaels"},{"text":"We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","conversation","conversations","converse","double-standards","gossip","humor","humour","hypocrisy","hypocrite","hypocrites","personal","personal-life","personal-lives","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire","speak","speaking","tabloid","tabloids","talk","talking"],"id":414570,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["active","actor","actress","aesthetics","applied-arts","art","art-criticism","art-history","art","artist","artwork","beauty","conversation","converse","craft","create","creative","creative-writer","creativity","criticism","critique","dance","dancer","drama","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","literature","music","novelist","paint","painter","painting","participant","performance","performance-art","performing-arts","poet","practice","practicing","quotes","sculpt","sculptor","sculpture","singer","skill","songwriter","study","technique","theatre","visual-arts","what-is-art","works","writer"],"id":428678,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":10,"pages":1}}