{"quotes":[{"text":"Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["balance","borrow","borrowed","busy","exaggerate","exaggerated","fear","fearing","fears","fiction","frightened","inflated","reality","refuse","reject","rejecting","returning","truth"],"id":8623,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Maybe that's what writers do-Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.","author":"Sanhita Baruah","tags":["alone","broken","drama","emotions","exaggerate","exaggeration","fall","fallen","feel","feelings","grief","grieve","injured-heart","life","lonely","lost","love","pain","painful","poems","poetry","sad","sadness","sorrow","sorry","stories","story","write","writers"],"id":71951,"author_id":"Sanhita+Baruah"},{"text":"The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["anticipation","anxiety","apprehension","depression","exaggerate","fear","imagination","inflate","panic","paranoia","paranoid","transpire"],"id":76110,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["exaggerate","exaggeration","fear","fearing","give","grant","permission","permit","possess","power","powerful","project","projection"],"id":80782,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["angels","catastrophic","choices","choosing","devils","exaggerate","exaggerated","exaggerating","fear","fearful","fearing","frightened","god","inflate","over-exaggerate","paranoia","paranoid","satan","worse-case"],"id":208281,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.","author":"Khang Kijarro Nguyen","tags":["cousin","exaggerate","exaggeration","kissing-cousin","lie","truth"],"id":211849,"author_id":"Khang+Kijarro+Nguyen"},{"text":"Strength other than that received from God is just hype manufactured by men.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","christianity","create","deception","empowered","empowerment","exaggerate","exaggerated","god","guidance","hope","hype","inflated","jesus","jesus-christ","lies","manufacture","manufactured","reassurance","strength","strong"],"id":276710,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["exaggerate","exaggerated","exaggeration","exaggerations","funny","ildan-wisdom","ildan-wise-sayings","ildan-words","look-funny","mehmet-murat-ildan","mehmet-murat-ildan","turkish-","turkish-literature","turkish-playwrights","turkish","turkish","turkish-wisdom-words","turkish-writers"],"id":287396,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Fear is often bred of an imagination that couldn’t let something be what it actually was.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bred","compound","dream","exaggerate","expand","fear","fearing","frightened","imagination","imagine","magnified","magnify","overblown","paralyzed"],"id":331537,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","believe","confine","confines","consumerism","content","exaggerate","exaggeration","free","freedom","funny","glorify","glory","happiness","happy","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","idol","idolatry","idols","inflate","inflated","jail","jailed","jailer","jailers","jails","joke","jokes","joy","joyous","liberate","liberation","material","materialism","money","prison","prison-cell","prison-cells","prisoner","prisoners","prisons","rich","riches","satire","shack","shacks","slave","slavery","slaves","spiritual","spirituality","wealth","wealthy","worship"],"id":374234,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}