{"quotes":[{"text":"In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.Speech is born out of longing,True description from the real taste.The one who tastes, knows;the one who explains, lies.How can you describe the true form of SomethingIn whose presence you are blotted out?And in whose being you still exist?And who lives as a sign for your journey?","author":"Rabia Al-Adawiyya","tags":["being","explain","explaining","explanation","form","forms","heart","journey","lies","longing","love","speech"],"id":38087,"author_id":"Rabia+Al-Adawiyya"},{"text":"Lena Ella Haloway Tiddle.' I pronounce her full name, very slowly, partly because I need to reassure myself of her existence—Lena, my friend, the worried one, the one who always pleaded for safety first, who now makes secret appointments to meet with boys. 'You have some explaining to do.'Hana, you remember Alex,' Lena says weakly, as though that—the fact of my remembering him—explains any.","author":"Lauren Oliver","tags":["alex-sheathes","explaining","hana-tate","here","lena-ella-haloway-tiddle","message","remember","unspoken-words"],"id":110752,"author_id":"Lauren+Oliver"},{"text":"When I was working on the book 'The Life Of One Kid 7', I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... One moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["depress","depression","explained","explaining","for","god","hurts","inside","moment","mother","outside","realise","sake"],"id":122297,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"I want my music to do the explaining.","author":"Demi Lovato","tags":["want","explaining "],"id":138446,"author_id":"Demi+Lovato"},{"text":"When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["explaining","growth","learning","spirituality"],"id":232350,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Who are 'THEY', you are one of 'They' and they are the people/humans.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["explaining","explanation","reason","reasons","they"],"id":249213,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"Thought we explained, but it does matter how that is understood. Is to say - you are not done until you done!","author":"Praveen Chenna","tags":["done-well","explaining","praveen-chenna","understanding"],"id":279542,"author_id":"Praveen+Chenna"},{"text":"Living in this skin is hard and painful, most of the times, because I never volunteered to take this on. The daily sacrifice of heart over mind,the forever ongoing task of explaining this and that,and why I don’t want to look like this and be like thatbut still here I am and if this is the body I’ve been given I’m sure as hell gonna make it work.","author":"Charlotte Eriksson","tags":["attitude","body","explaining","forever","free","growing-up","heart","how-to-look","ideals","inspirational","lit","litquote","living","looks","make-it-work","mind","mind-over-matter","myself","not-giving-up","painful","poetry","prose","sacrifice","skin","songwriter","stream-of-consciousness","the-glass-child","volunteer","youth"],"id":314489,"author_id":"Charlotte+Eriksson"},{"text":"Don’t waste your time trying to explain yourself to people that are committed to misunderstanding you. Instead, commit your time to explaining who they are to them. When you get a person to see the positive similarities you share, it begins to restore the loss of respect between you.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["church-members","explaining","families","friends","healing","helping-others","irony","peace","relationships","respect","revelation","thoughtlessness","transitions","understanding"],"id":352392,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.","author":"Jennifer Elisabeth","tags":["anxiety","art","beach","born-ready","cape-cod","coming-of-age","constellations","depression","destiny","explaining","fate","friends","girls","growing","growing-up","healing","hope","inspiration","jennifer-elisabeth","learning","life","love","lovers","ocean","pray","prayer","red-thread","red-thread-of-destiny","red-thread-of-fate","self-acceptance","self-love","self-reflection","soul","soul-mates","stars","teenagers","teens","time","universe","wish"],"id":369459,"author_id":"Jennifer+Elisabeth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}