{"quotes":[{"text":"Most people are about as happy as their self confidence will allow them to be.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anxiety","balance","bickering","change-perspective","competition","decreased-dopamine","fear","fights","finding-joy","finding-peace","freedom","happiness","inner-peace","jealousy","joy","lack-of-confidence","lack-of-contentment","low-self-esteem","need-to-be-right","self-defeating-attitude","serotonin","stimulus-seeking"],"id":3116,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"When people write you off, just start again as if you don't belong to this world and see miracle happening!","author":"Ramana Pemmaraju","tags":["confidence","depression","inspirational","intelligence","lack-of-confidence","mind","miracles","world"],"id":254215,"author_id":"Ramana+Pemmaraju"},{"text":"It is better to stay single and wait for the one that makes sense then to marry someone that makes absolutely no sense. The moment you settle is when the one person that makes all the sense in the world shows up and Satan sits back and enjoys your spiritual meltdown.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accountability","anger","arranged-marriages","bitter","choices","civil-union","confidence","confused","dating","devil","divorce","domestic-partnership","fear","frustrated","frustration","guilted","hindsight","hurt","insecurity","lack-of-confidence","lessons","loss-of-testimony","meltdowns","misery","mistakes","pain","practical","regret","relationships","religious-guilt","satan","self-esteem","self-loathing","sensitivity","settling","shame","teenagers","temptation","true-love","youth"],"id":275480,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not believe in ourselves.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["believe","lack-of-confidence","purpose","self-identity","weak"],"id":293286,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Empowered Women 101: If he can't tell other women that he is happily married and acts in a way that suggests he isn't fully committed then he isn't happy. He is keeping his foot in the door for a better opportunity should it not work out with you. Real women don't need to investigate. They invest in their self confidence and worth by not allowing their man to disrespect them. They are not afraid to ask themselves the tough questions: Why am I letting this man humiliate me and value me less than others? Why have I allowed myself to become a doormat?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adulterers","cheaters","empowering-women","lack-of-confidence","low-self-esteem","players","self-esteem"],"id":343026,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that 'selective' evilness is okay is mental illness.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["better-parenting","commonsense","divorce-101","divorce-care","don-t-be-stupid","evil","games","guilted","have-faith","just-sayn","kings","lack-of-confidence","living-a-lie","low-self-esteem","manipulated","marriage","mental","mental-illness","not-worth-it","relationship-problems","rise-up","spouses","stayingpositiveuniversity-com","stupidity"],"id":412387,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":7,"pages":1}}