{"quotes":[{"text":"In the long run most short cuts are flawed - especially on journeys to 'so-called' success.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["authenticity","being-a-champion","cheating","ease","effort","flawed","hard-work","honesty","lazy","long-run","marathon","patience","perseverance","persistence","personal-development","on-business","on-sport","on-success","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","self-improvement","short-cuts","shrewd","smart","sprints","success","success-techniques","training"],"id":48712,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"But I can now understand why people read, why they like to get lost in somebody else's life. Sometimes I'll read a sentence and it will make me sit up, jolt me, because it is something that I have recently felt but never said out loud. I want to reach into the page and tell the characters that I understand them, that they're not alone, that I'm not alone, that it's ok to feel like this. And then the lunch bell rings, the book closes, and I'm plunged back into reality.","author":"Cecelia Ahern","tags":["books","escape","flawed","reading","relatable"],"id":53600,"author_id":"Cecelia+Ahern"},{"text":"The tattoo is there not because I believe there is something wrong with me. It's there to remind me that our flaws are our strengths.","author":"Cecelia Ahern","tags":["flawed","society","truth","ya"],"id":58333,"author_id":"Cecelia+Ahern"},{"text":"As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["blind","blindness","desires","eyesight","flawed","greed","greedy","inaccurate","irrational","needs","possessions","privilege","rational","selfish","selfishness","skewed","vision","wants"],"id":69346,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If you are the one perfect person in an imperfect world, you are flawed.","author":"Palle Oswald","tags":["flawed-character","flawed-humanity","flawed","imperfection","perfection","philosophical-musings"],"id":72471,"author_id":"Palle+Oswald"},{"text":"But maybe that isn't possible. Maybe the mind of the majority is always the healthy mind, simply by virtue of its numbers. Maybe it's the definition of madness to believe I'm right and everyone else if wrong, to find my thoughts rational and reasonable when almost the entire world finds them damaged and flawed.","author":"Stacey Jay","tags":["flawed","knowledge","love","madness","morals","of-beast-and-beauty","reason","right","sanity","views","wrong","ya"],"id":80826,"author_id":"Stacey+Jay"},{"text":"However much or little I had written, on a subsequent reading it always seemed so fundamentally flawed that I had to destroy it immediately and begin again.","author":"W.G. Sebald","tags":["destruction","flawed","writing"],"id":80889,"author_id":"W.G.+Sebald"},{"text":"I used to think I was the strangest person in the worldbut then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I doI would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too.Well, I hope that if you are out there you read this and know that yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.","author":"Rebecca Katherine Martin","tags":["bizarre","feel","flawed","hope","imgaine","know","misattributed-frida-kahlo","people","person","read","strangest","think-strange","thought","world"],"id":88098,"author_id":"Rebecca+Katherine+Martin"},{"text":"You are not white,but a rainbow of colors.You are not black,but golden.You are not just a nationality,but a citizen of the world.You are not just for the right or left,but for what is right over the wrong.You are not just rich or poor,but always wealthy in the mind and heart.You are not perfect, but flawed.You are flawed, but you are just.You may just be conscious human,but you are also a magnificentreflection of God.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["africa","attitude","black","citizen","citizen-of-the-world","colors","conscious-human","ethnicity","fair","flawed","flaws","global-citizen","god","gold","golden","goodphilosophy","human","humanism","humanity","humankind","integrity","just","justice","knowledge","left","life","life-poem","lion-of-god","love","magnificent","mankind","mindfulness","mindset","morales","morality","morals","nation","nationalism","neutral","otherness","peace","perfection","perspective","poem","poetry","political-party","poor","races","racism","rainbow","reflection-of-god","revolution","rich","right","spiritual","values","view","wealth","wealthy","white","wisdom","world","world-citizen","world-poetry","wrong"],"id":96870,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20).","author":"Victoria Moran","tags":["beautiful","beauty","flawed","imperfect","love","self-love","soul"],"id":141758,"author_id":"Victoria+Moran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}