{"quotes":[{"text":"For the rest of history, for most of us, our bright promise will always fall short of being actualised; it will never earn us bountiful sums of money or beget exemplary objects or organisations....Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or a bicycle.","author":"Alain de Botton","tags":["brilliance","failure","flaws","promise","success"],"id":5308,"author_id":"Alain+de+Botton"},{"text":"This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.","author":"Colleen Hoover","tags":["falling-in-love","flaws","love"],"id":7209,"author_id":"Colleen+Hoover"},{"text":"This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.","author":"Bob Graham","tags":["war","flaws","president "],"id":7539,"author_id":"Bob+Graham"},{"text":"I think that one of the biggest flaws ofmankind is that we become complacent with our lives.","author":"Daniel Willey","tags":["complacence","complacency","complacent","flaw","flaws","humans","life","live","lives","man","mankind"],"id":11528,"author_id":"Daniel+Willey"},{"text":"True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["being-real","depth","flaws","friendship","honesty","relationships","shallowness","soulmates","true-friends","truth","vanity"],"id":15961,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The truth is that the more intimately you know someone, the more clearly you’ll see their flaws. That’s just the way it is. This is why marriages fail, why children are abandoned, why friendships don’t last. You might think you love someone until you see the way they act when they’re out of money or under pressure or hungry, for goodness’ sake. Love is something different. Love is choosing to serve someone and be with someone in spite of their filthy heart. Love is patient and kind, love is deliberate. Love is hard. Love is pain and sacrifice, it’s seeing the darkness in another person and defying the impulse to jump ship.","author":"The Great Camryn","tags":["beauty","children","clear","flaws","friendship","intimate","love","marriage","pain","true-love","truth"],"id":16821,"author_id":"The+Great+Camryn"},{"text":"To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it's always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["acceptable","adversary","amazing","attributes","cherry","complimentary","excellence","features","flaws","ignore","imperfection","impossible","rearrange","scar","strength","traits","unbelievable","weakness"],"id":20925,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Embrace your imperfections.Fancy your flaws.Flaunt your blemishes.Adore your birthmarks.Laugh off glitches.Discuss your setbacks.Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons.","author":"Jasleen Kaur Gumber","tags":["birthmarks","failure","flaws","glitch","happiness","imperfection","inspiration","lessons","lessons-in-life","lessons-learned","life","mistakes","mistakes-we-make","regrets","success","successful-living"],"id":22344,"author_id":"Jasleen+Kaur+Gumber"},{"text":"You have to embrace the idea of imperfection, even in the thing that is most perfect for you.","author":"Kiera Cass","tags":["flaws","imperfection","kiera-cass","life","love","mgg","perfection","the-crown","the-selection"],"id":22616,"author_id":"Kiera+Cass"},{"text":"I was still too much of a fledgling with people to understand that, in the long run, nobody is a picnic and that I was no picnic myself.","author":"Philip Roth","tags":["behavior","difficulties","flaws","people"],"id":29377,"author_id":"Philip+Roth"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":144,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}