{"quotes":[{"text":"The person who knows how to enjoy their own company knows the most important thing.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["enjoyment","importance","pleasure","solitude"],"id":3235,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"This was when it hit him! The thought of losing his entire family in one day suddenly made his heart ache in a way that he didn't think could be possible.","author":"Grace Kagni","tags":["experience","family","importance","life","love"],"id":3917,"author_id":"Grace+Kagni"},{"text":"For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?","author":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","tags":["flowers","importance","longing","love","protection","roses","sheep","stars","thorns","uniqueness","war"],"id":8111,"author_id":"Antoine+de+Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry"},{"text":"In regards to maan (to seek importance from others), a man will become impudent if he keeps getting insulted up to a point. If he gets maan (importance from others) to a certain level, he grows stronger. And if he gets too much maan [praise], then his desire for it will come to end.","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["desire","importance","insult","insults","maan","praise","respect","spiritual","spiritual"],"id":9648,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.","author":"RSCruz","tags":["calm","experience","god","importance","peace-of-mind","storm"],"id":9785,"author_id":"RSCruz"},{"text":"Interest in temperament as an individual difference dimension of importance in one's behavior leads to reanalysis of both theoretical and methodological considerations relating to the construct.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["advice-for-daily-living","affection","allowance","behavioral-change","behaviors","consideration","consideration-of-others","construct","construction","decision","decisions-inspirational","differences","dimensions","dimensions-of-consciousness","experience","importance","individual-rights","intellectual","interesting-perspection-of-life","interesting","life-philosophy","life","long-term-relationships","love","relationship","short-inspirational","short-term","temper","temperament"],"id":13553,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"Things becomes invisible at the very moment I refuse to grant them importance. And while I am utterly ashamed to admit it, many of the most important things in my life are invisible.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abandon","abandonment","ashamed","deny","diminish","foolish","foolishness","ignorance","ignore","importance","invisible","reject","stupid","stupidity","valuable","value","wisdom","wise"],"id":14403,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"An important step in escaping mediocrity is to stop worrying about what other people think of you.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["escaping","importance","mediocrity","thinking","worrying"],"id":14990,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"There's something satisfying to proclaiming humility while knowing just how important you truly are.","author":"Michael R. Fletcher","tags":["falsehood","humility","importance","status","wichtig-is-the-guy"],"id":16094,"author_id":"Michael+R.+Fletcher"},{"text":"Someone somewhere may be one of the most important person to you currently but you will always be nothing more than a backup plan to them.","author":"Lik Hock Yap","tags":["importance","lesson","life","love","pain","relationship","sad","truth"],"id":16902,"author_id":"Lik+Hock+Yap"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":200,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}