{"quotes":[{"text":"Distance gives a clearer view. You can't see the facade of a building while staying inside.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["clear","critical","criticism","distance","facade","far","infatuation","inside","inspection","judgment","look","love","near","open-minded","reality","view"],"id":31307,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Façade. One, simple word. But, very complex portents. It’s like living a life of half-dead. You are neither fully inside a grave, nor completely out of it, beyond the oppressive calmness of the slabs, tombstones and plaques. There is one solace though, you soon discover that you are not alone in the vast graveyard of the half-dead. This is what Kamini soon realized when she plunged herself back into the world that the destiny had conspired her to inherit.","author":"Vinod Pande","tags":["death-and-love","destiny","facade","grave","half-dead","sombre"],"id":35790,"author_id":"Vinod+Pande"},{"text":"My mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: 'Henry, smile!Why don't you ever smile?'and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["depression","facade","love","motherhood","pain"],"id":39961,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"All too often people pretend to be professional. 'Professionalism' is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["character","competence","facade","fraud","honesty","key","professional","results","richie-norton","transparency"],"id":47994,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["action","actions","aphorism","aphorisms","bad","bad-people","bad-person","badness","character","characters","conceal","concealment","facade","facades","good","good-people","good-person","goodness","humor","humour","illusion","illusions","impress","impression","impressions","mask","masks","personalities","personality","quotation","quotations","quote","quotes","satire"],"id":69401,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["adversity","anxiety","belief","brain","bravery","chimera","cognition","courage","daydreaming","death","dream","facade","failure","fake","fantasy","fear","fearful","foreshadowing","frightening","future","hate","horror","imagination","irrational","irrational-belief","life","life-events","loss","love","make-believe","natural","nightmare","pain","past","poverty","present","psychology","rational","rational-belief","reality","scary","solitude","suffering","supernatural","superstition","terror","torture"],"id":73099,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.","author":"Lisa Unger","tags":["beautiful-lies","facade","free","truth"],"id":86658,"author_id":"Lisa+Unger"},{"text":"A leader is generally not more virtuous than most ordinary people. The opposite is usually true. Because people are reluctant to be led by those perceived as evil, a leader expertly creates a façade, behind which he hides all that may appear dirty. This is a difficult art where the leader has to wear two masks, one in public and the other in private—and no one should see the true face of a leader.","author":"Awdhesh Singh","tags":["facade","leader","leadership"],"id":95492,"author_id":"Awdhesh+Singh"},{"text":"​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.","author":"Vineet Raj Kapoor","tags":["brand","ego","evolution","evolve","evolving","facade","face","films","growing-up","identity","innovation","invent","invention","mirror","performance","personality","self","yourself"],"id":136284,"author_id":"Vineet+Raj+Kapoor"},{"text":"First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["character","characteristics","create","creating","destroy","destroying","ego","experience","facade","first","give-in","identity","illusion","jung","jungian","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","let-go","life","life","mask","meaning","meaning-of-life","perception","personality","perspective","possessions","pride","psyche","psychology","reality","self","simple","subjective","surrender","truth"],"id":137473,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}