{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["acceptance","antagonist","anti-hero","antihero","art","artist","bad","bad-guy","discernment","judgment","misunderstood","painting","perception","perspective","understanding","villain"],"id":213,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"When you're emotionally weak, but psychically smiling. When you want to be loved but can't be loved. When you try to feel special, but realize you're just one out of many. When you cry about every little obstacle and disappointment. But hey I'm fine.","author":"Maite","tags":["emotional","illusion","lonely","misunderstood","sad","weak"],"id":16514,"author_id":"Maite"},{"text":"Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["absorbent","ambivert","assumption","awareness","bias","cool","crazy","culture","discernment","down-to-earth","extrovert","friendly","intelligent","introversion","introvert","judgment","knowledge","learned","loner","misunderstood","mysterious","normal","observation","odd","prejudgment","prudence","psychology","quiet-people","reality","reflection","shy","silence","social","social-awareness","strange","thinking","underestimated","understanding","weird","wisdom"],"id":17374,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"'Natural Born Killers' is really a misunderstood romantic comedy.","author":"Woody Harrelson","tags":["born","misunderstood","comedy "],"id":26198,"author_id":"Woody+Harrelson"},{"text":"The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["accomplishment","bad-poetry","criticism","doggerel","drum","enjoyment","fulfillment","good-bad-poetry","good-poetry","indestructible","lyrics","misunderstood","music","perception","perseverance","persistence","perspective","pleasure","poet","poetry","reality","rhyme","rhythm","sense-of-accomplishment","sense-of-fulfillment","sense-of-perspective","sense-of-reality","sensory","sound","spoken-word","trouble","understand","unshakeable","words","work","writing"],"id":31552,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Until you have stood in another woman’s stilettos, you will never begin to know the year of pain she felt breaking them in.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["adversity","being-ignored","cruelty","illness","lack-of-compassion","misunderstood","no-empathy","no-mercy","pain","scars","sorrow","trials","wounds"],"id":35210,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","bad","blindness","blindness-of-man","complexity","complication","depravity","desire","discernment","emotion","evil","fallen","glory","god","good","happiness","heart","holiness","ignorance","joy","judgment","love","lust","man","meaning","misunderstood","morality","omnipotence","omnipresence","omniscience","pain","passion","perfection","purpose","reason","scam","simplicity","sin","sovereignty","stupidity","stupidity-of-man","suffering","ultimate","understanding"],"id":38681,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["castaway","fame","friendship","getaway","gossip","impersonal","impersonal-world","island","libel","loneliness","misunderstood","personal","personal-world","propaganda","relationships","repetition","rumors","slander","solitude","tropical","vacation","world"],"id":41057,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Live your life with the will, to understand life.","author":"Jonathan Anthony Burkett","tags":["2017","donald-trump","facebook","growth","i-can-only-be-me","kids","kindness","lessons","life","love","misunderstood","understand","work"],"id":48637,"author_id":"Jonathan+Anthony+Burkett"},{"text":"I'm a lion in a strange land.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["ity","awkwardness","beast","courage","different","earth","king","land","lion","loneliness","misunderstanding","misunderstood","odd","original","outcast","strange","strength","strong","weird","world"],"id":54248,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":65,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}