{"quotes":[{"text":"Zoe stopped one last time in front of the mirror, adjusting her new American dress. She didn’t see the dress, however. She saw what the big Russian did to her. She saw what al-Qaeda did to her. She saw a person shunned by her Persian village. She saw ugliness. Every time she looked in the mirror she saw deficiency.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["al-qaeda","american-fashion","benzehabe","deficiency","depression","immigrant","insecurity","iran","outsider","persian","rape","russia","shame","shunned","unassimilated","western-fashion"],"id":2793,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"The reason people fear to confide in anyone is that even an internal friend can make personal details external, and it will remain eternal.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["betray","betrayal","blab","confiding-in-someone","deep","eternal","expose","external","fear","insecure","insecurity","internal","intimacy","intimate","leak","open","private","privy","reveal","secrets","unfold","unveil"],"id":3922,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself.","author":"Miya Yamanouchi","tags":["breaking-up","fear-of-loss","fears","insecurities","insecurity","inspirational","jealousy","leaving","losing-yourself","loss","motivational","relationship-problems","relationships","self"],"id":4170,"author_id":"Miya+Yamanouchi"},{"text":"Chasing a person doesn’t give you value or build values in you. You earn your value by chasing morality and practicing dignity.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["build-values","chasing","chastity","daughters-of-god","dignity","ego","empowering-women","gratitude","hell-to-well","insecurity","knowing-your-worth","lessons-learned","let-it-go","letting-go","life-lessons","living-authentically","morals","moving-on","other-woman","pride","pursuit","quality","quality-women","rise-up","self-compassion","self-confidence","self-love","self-worth","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com","temptress","to-be-human","wellness"],"id":4206,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"An answer gone unanswered will be answered in a parallel universe. Existence is classified in unrecorded dimensions.","author":"Vishwanath S J","tags":["black-hole","chapter","complexity","dark-matter","dimension","existence","insecurity","interstellar","life","logical","mind","parallel-universes","philosophy","quote","time","time-travel","time-warp","wisdom","zeigarnik"],"id":7983,"author_id":"Vishwanath+S+J"},{"text":"Fighting physically signifies spiritual weakness.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["combat","fight","fighting","insecurity","materialism","spirit","spiritual-battle","spirituality","strength","weakness"],"id":8884,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.","author":"Alan Hollinghurst","tags":["growing-up","happy","insecure","insecurity","line-of-beauty","love","sad"],"id":10908,"author_id":"Alan+Hollinghurst"},{"text":"Because you're always learning, the chief lesson remains: you still know nothing.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["business","certainty","chief","confidence","development","ego","evolution","facts","growth","humility","information","insecurity","inspirational","intelligence","knowing","knowledge","learn","learning","lesson","motivational","not-knowing","philosophy","preach","pride","science","security","success","teach","truth","uncertainty","wisdom"],"id":11504,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["annoying-habits","attachment","bad-relationships","betrayal","bickering","boredom","boyfriend","cheating","competition","day-dreams","death","denial","desires","disappointments","divorce","drama","drama-seeking","dreams","ego","failures","false-memories","family","fantasy","fights","flirtation","funerals","girlfriend","how-it-was","incompatability","insecurity","jealousy","lies","marriage","marriage-difficulties","memories","memory-loss","nostalgia","obsession","personality","pictures","pride","real-life","sentimental","silence","stimulus-seeking","the-past","treachery","vacations"],"id":11803,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"If there is any one person you can't love, then you don't understand love. The bitter cup we have to drink is the dregs of humility; we must see past the outer shells of insecurity to the seed of divinity deep inside each one of us. No one virtue is strong enough to stand on its own. No one vice is simple enough not to lead to all others. No one person can appreciate and support us as much as we need. No one event is enough to tear apart our lives. What does this all mean? We have to give everything or we will have nothing. We cannot take any short cuts. We have to love everyone, or we cannot truly love anyone. No excuse will mean anything to us in the end.People are beautiful, don’t forget that. Don’t let pomp and circumstance, society or folklore fool you with counterfeit beauty. True beauty is usually not something you can see, but something you feel; something that inspires you.","author":"Michael Brent Jones","tags":["beautiful","beauty","humility","insecurity","love","short-cuts"],"id":13037,"author_id":"Michael+Brent+Jones"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":256,"pages":26,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}