{"quotes":[{"text":"One Crack On A Mirror Can Ruin The Beauty of It But Most Importantly, It Ruins The Reflection of The Individual, By Making It Twisted, Zigzag And Ugly. Character Is Like A Mirror. So Build Your Character In Such A Way That It Reflects All The Good In Others Who Follows You Or Treat You As An Idol....","author":"Muhammad Imran Hasan","tags":["character","humble","idol","life","life-philosophy","manner","mirror","modest","morals","motivation","power","reflection","self-improvement"],"id":30662,"author_id":"Muhammad+Imran+Hasan"},{"text":"Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anger","beliefs","conflict","defensive","dispute","frustration","hate","idol","impatient","law","lawlessness","materialism","morality","offended","offensive","opinions","patience","politics","rage","religion","science","short-temper","temper"],"id":32387,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Where am I?” you ask. Where you are is where the things you’ve denied worshipping have taken you.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["confuse","confused","denial","deny","disorient","disoriented","gods","idol","idols","lost","misguided","misled","priorities","priority","worship","worshipping"],"id":45478,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.","author":"David Cassidy","tags":["me","idol","stuff "],"id":49761,"author_id":"David+Cassidy"},{"text":"To make the State your god is to worship an idol, for the State is a man-made creation arising naturally out of tribal communion; but the soul, if such there be, is a god-made miracle and above all national or patriotic standards – the supreme and eternal reality.","author":"Eden Phillpotts","tags":["idol","miracle","reality","soul","state","worship"],"id":51650,"author_id":"Eden+Phillpotts"},{"text":"Possibly the most debilitating deception of all is to create a god of my own making, fool myself into believing that this limp god of mine is the true God, and then construct the entirety of my life on this flamboyantly fictional character. Possibly the most devastating realization of all is when the real God shows up, and in the showing up all of this come crashing down.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bible","bow","christian","christianity","deceit","deception","fabrication","false-gods","falsehood","fiction","fictional","god","idol","idolatry","idols","illusion","king","sin","sinful-false","throne","worship","worshiping"],"id":66396,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Everybody is a teenage idol.","author":"Barry Gibb","tags":["idol","everybody","teenage "],"id":67246,"author_id":"Barry+Gibb"},{"text":"The ball laughs, radiant, in the air. He brings her down, puts her to sleep, showers her with compliments, dances with her, and seeing such things never before seen his admirers pity their unborn grandchildren who will never see them.","author":"Eduardo Galeano","tags":["football","idol","inspiration","soccer"],"id":71895,"author_id":"Eduardo+Galeano"},{"text":"You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["atticus","idol","infallible","jean-louise","perfect","racism","scout"],"id":155788,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"When people believe that what you believe is what they believe, they turn you into a belief.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["belief","believe","believe-in-yourself","fans","honor","idol","idolatory","invention","liking","presumption","respect","totem","trust","worship"],"id":178720,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}