{"quotes":[{"text":"One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.","author":"Stephen Richards","tags":["internet","isolation-loneliness","isolationism","lonliness","social-media","stephen-richards-self-help"],"id":14476,"author_id":"Stephen+Richards"},{"text":"We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.","author":"Thomas Wolfe","tags":["coming-of-age","depression","hypocrisy","isolation-loneliness","teen-angst"],"id":180659,"author_id":"Thomas+Wolfe"},{"text":"The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.","author":"Ashton Applewhite","tags":["aging-well","community","dependency","isolation-loneliness","perfectionism","self-sufficiency"],"id":192186,"author_id":"Ashton+Applewhite"},{"text":"The pain we feel in separation is the price we pay for love.","author":"Hatef Mokhtar","tags":["isolation-loneliness","love","romance","sacrifice","separated"],"id":292297,"author_id":"Hatef+Mokhtar"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}