{"quotes":[{"text":"If you're insulting people on the internet, you must be ugly on the inside.","author":"Phil Lester","tags":["bullying","cyberbullying","insults-and-slander","internet","mean-people","meanness","opinions-of-others","uglyness"],"id":79487,"author_id":"Phil+Lester"},{"text":"Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to general misery.","author":"P.N. Elrod","tags":["greed","insanity","life","love","meanness","misery","vanity","world"],"id":92683,"author_id":"P.N.+Elrod"},{"text":"Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.","author":"Mandy Hale","tags":["being-kind","being-loving","grace","helping-people","high-school","kind-women","kindness","loving-people","making-a-difference","mean-girls","meanness","mercy","positive-thinking"],"id":104807,"author_id":"Mandy+Hale"},{"text":"Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It's like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.","author":"Rebecca Stead","tags":["actions","meanness"],"id":127101,"author_id":"Rebecca+Stead"},{"text":"Playful, positive sarcasm is different from negative mean sarcasm, and many people don't know the difference.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["different","knowing","meanness","negativity","playful","positivity","sarcasm"],"id":145506,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.","author":"Thomas Paine","tags":["country","happiness","humanity","imposition","improper","independence","meanness","passion","the-world"],"id":174731,"author_id":"Thomas+Paine"},{"text":"That was when I learned that kindness could break a heart just as sure as meanness. The difference was the kindness made that broken heart softer. Meanness just made the heart want to be hard.","author":"Susie Finkbeiner","tags":["child","dust-bowl","kindness","meanness"],"id":175114,"author_id":"Susie+Finkbeiner"},{"text":"Unfulfilled expectations bring unhappiness. Comparisons fill life with meanness. Avoid both to fill life with joyfulness.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["comparisons","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","inspirational","life-with-joyfulness","meanness","philosophy","quotes","unfulfilled-expectations","unhappiness"],"id":234601,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Meanness is a monster that usurps your self-control because you cowardly allow it to conquer you.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["being-mean","mean","meanness","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","self-control","unkindness"],"id":289881,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"No mean person is mean all the time. The whole point of being mean is to fluctuate so that you can hold out the hope for someone. So someone will hold out the hope that they're gonna catch you on the sunny side or that you're gonna be nice this time. The tyranny is inconsistency. Somebody thats consistently mean is something that is pretty easy to sort out. The reality is that the meanest people can be wonderful sometimes. That's the whole point of meanness because otherwise it's too obvious. It's the niceness that gets you trapped in the dysfunction. That is the problem and so the fact that you have this belief that there is hope in the relationship is foundational to the dysfunction.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["dysfunction","dysfunctional","meanness","niceness","relationship","relationships","tyranny"],"id":305596,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}