{"quotes":[{"text":"To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["authentic","authenticity","avoid","avoidance","brave","bravery","denial","fake","false","fear","forthright","frank","honest","honesty","pretend","real","truth","truthful"],"id":15465,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["denial","forthright","frank","god","honesty","ignorance","ignore","jesus","jesus-christ","sacrifice","sacrificial"],"id":37231,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"You have to be transparent so you no longer cast a shadow but instead let the light pass through you.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["authentic","authenticity","cast","forthright","honest","honesty","integrity","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","light","opaque","pass","shadow","translucent","transparency","transparent","truth","truthful","truthfulness","veracity"],"id":41596,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","forthright","forthrightness","honest","honesty","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","motivation","motivational","motivational","polite","real","speak","speaking","sweet","true","truth"],"id":170985,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too dirty to even know that the latter exists.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["aware","awareness","condition","dirty","filthy","forthright","frank","heart","honest","insight","introspection","introspective","lens","perception","self-analysis","self-care","self-critical","self-criticism","self-evaluation","self-perception","soul","state"],"id":333410,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It is always healthy to be honest.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["adage","advertisement","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","catch-lines","catch-phrases","debate","fact","forthright","forthrightness","health","healthy","honest","honesty","inspirational","knowledge","lie","lies","motivational","movie-dialogue","peace","peace-of-mind","peaceful","philosophy","policy","politics","proverbs","public-speaking","rhetoric","rhetorics","script","script-writing","speech","speech-writing","straight","taglines","transparency","transparent","true","truth","wisdom"],"id":337550,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":6,"pages":1}}