{"quotes":[{"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":"There was no unknown. He loved me and I loved him. There was no question, no doubt, no uncertainty, which perhaps caused us to lose ourselves indefinitely and enter a void so permanent. One where we stood with such confidence, which sounds lovely; but when you believe you have everything, you simply lose everything.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["belief","failure","falling-in-love","losing-yourself","love","no-doubt","quote","relationships","thoughts","unknown"],"id":80536,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"I feel very strongly that all Japanese at that time had the idea drilled into them of 1999 being the end of the world. Aum renunciates have already accepted, inside themselves, the end of the world, because when they become a renunciate, they discard themselves totally, thereby abandoning the world. In other words, Aum is a collection of people who have accepted the end. People who continue to hold out hope for the near future still have an attachment to the world. If you have attachments, you will not discard your Self, but for Renunciates it's as if they've leaped right off the cliff. And taking a giant leap like that feels good. They lose something - but gain something in return.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["cult","identity","losing-yourself"],"id":109141,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.","author":"Bud Harris","tags":["individuation","learn-to-love","losing-yourself","self-awareness","self-realization"],"id":135890,"author_id":"Bud+Harris"},{"text":"Only you can find yourself by losing yourself again and again in the deep darkness of your driving desires.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["darkness-of-your-driving-desires","debasish-mridha","desires","find-yourself","inspirational","losing-yourself","philosophy","quotes"],"id":239230,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"I write the right. I do the left.","author":"Dominic Riccitello","tags":["advice","losing-yourself","perspective","quote","right-from-left","taking-your-own-advice","thoughts","write-from-wrong"],"id":247783,"author_id":"Dominic+Riccitello"},{"text":"Listen.I will lose myselfif it means I can find you.","author":"Alaska Gold","tags":["alaska-gold","confession","family","finding-yourself","growing-light","losing-yourself","love","poetry","trust","truth","writing"],"id":285891,"author_id":"Alaska+Gold"},{"text":"Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.","author":"Victoria Schwab","tags":["armor","doubt","losing-yourself","lying","strength","trust"],"id":313243,"author_id":"Victoria+Schwab"},{"text":"A book about books is like a poem about poetry:Books are knowledge, paid for, all.Readers - horses in a stall.Stallions should always run.Lest they stale become, in turn.Running waters are most clear.In some books, you disappear –lose yourself, and track of time.How I wish that one was mine...Mine, to have, to write, to read...Mine, just like a flying steed.Mine, forever, - to improve.Would I then, of me, approve?I would not, I can't... Myself.I'm but dust, swept off a shelf.Fly, can I, just 'til I'm settled,down, beside my flower, petalled.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["approval","approve","book","books","botany","cleaning","disappear","disappearance","dust","flower","flowers","forgiveness","freedom","horse","horses","invisibility","invisible","losing-yourself","nothing","owner","ownership","petal","petalled","petals","poem","poems","poetry","reading","river","rose","running","shelf","stale","stall","stallion","stallions","still","stillness","sweeping","water","waters","writing"],"id":369239,"author_id":"Will+Advise"},{"text":"I have beenhanging hereheadlessfor so longthat the body has forgottenwhyor where or when ithappenedand the toeswalk along in shoesthat do notcareand althoughthe fingersslice things andhold things andmove things andtouchthingssuch asorangesapplesonionsbooksbodiesI am no longerreasonably surewhat these thingsarethey are mostlylikelamplight andfogthen often the hands willgo to thelost headand hold the headlike the hands of achildaround a balla blockair and wood -no teethno thinking partand when a windowblows opento achurchhillwomandogor something singingthe fingers of the handare senseless to vibrationbecause they have noearssenseless to color becausethey have noeyessenseless to smellwithout a nosethey country goes by asnonsensethe continentsthe daylights and eveningsshineon my dirtyfingernailsand in some mirrormy facea block to vanishscuffed part of a child’sballwhile everywheremovesworms and aircraftfires on the landtall violets in sanctitymy hands let go let golet go.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["life","losing-yourself","lost"],"id":383611,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}