{"quotes":[{"text":"You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["attitude","beautiful","beauty","judgement","perspective","projection"],"id":5627,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Projections' - attempts to blame all and sundry for my own past folly - will be found of no avail, and we must learn to withdraw them. None other is to blame for our body, home or circumstance, our friends and enemies, our job and place in the world. We made it all; let us accept and use and better it.","author":"Christmas Humphreys","tags":["acceptance","blame","buddhism","projection","psychology"],"id":14615,"author_id":"Christmas+Humphreys"},{"text":"Expectation and disappointment are far from friends but they are close relations.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["desires","disappointment","dreams","expectations","failure","fears","friends","happiness","hopes","hopes-and-dreams","inspiring","mindset","motivational","projection","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","relations","success","success","the-human-condition","unhappiness","wishing"],"id":33138,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.","author":"Wilhelm Reich","tags":["emotional-plague","knowledge","orgone","pride","projection","self-knowledge","self-perception","success"],"id":34673,"author_id":"Wilhelm+Reich"},{"text":"When two things occur successively we call them cause and effect if we believe one event made the other one happen. If we think one event is the response to the other, we call it a reaction. If we feel that the two incidents are not related, we call it a mere coincidence. If we think someone deserved what happened, we call it retribution or reward, depending on whether the event was negative or positive for the recipient. If we cannot find a reason for the two events' occurring simultaneously or in close proximity, we call it an accident. Therefore, how we explain coincidences depends on how we see the world. Is everything connected, so that events create resonances like ripples across a net? Or do things merely co-occur and we give meaning to these co-occurrences based on our belief system? Lieh-tzu's answer: It's all in how you think.","author":"Liezi","tags":["beliefs","cause-and-effect","coincidence","interpretation","perspectivism","projection","reality","relativity","subjectivity","taoism","truth","view"],"id":48974,"author_id":"Liezi"},{"text":"Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can’t believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.","author":"Pat Schneider","tags":["answer","prayer","projection","surprise"],"id":80654,"author_id":"Pat+Schneider"},{"text":"The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["exaggerate","exaggeration","fear","fearing","give","grant","permission","permit","possess","power","powerful","project","projection"],"id":80782,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Here in Alpha City, we have a common saying: “What we call ‘sky’ is merely a figment of our narrative.” The most dreamy-eyed among us seem to adorn themselves and their aspirations in that proverb and you’ll see it everywhere: in advertisements on the sides of streetcars and auto-rickshaws, spelled out in studs and rhinestones on designer jackets, emblazoned in the intricate designs of facial tattoos—even painted on city walls by putrid vandals and inspiring street artists. There is something glorious about kneading out into the doughy firmament the depth and breadth of one’s own universe, in rendering the contours of a sky whose limits are predicated only upon the bounds of one’s own imagination. The fact of the matter is that we cannot see the natural sky at all here. It is something like a theoretical mathematical expression: like the square-root of ‘negative one’—certainly it could be said to have a purpose for existing, but to cast eyes upon it, in its natural quantity, would be something akin to casting one’s eyes upon the raw elements comprising our everyday sustenance. How many of us have even borne close witness to the minute chemical compounds that react to lend battery power to our portable electronics? The sky is indeed such a concealed fixture now. It is fair to say that we have purged our memories of its true face and so we can only approximate a canvas and project our desires upon it to our heart’s dearest fancy. The most cynical among us would ostensibly declare it an unavoidable tragedy, but perhaps even these hardened individuals could not remember the naked sky well enough to know if what they were missing was something worthwhile. Perhaps, it’s cynical of me to say so! In any case, we have our searchlights pointed upwards and crisscrossing that expanse of heavens as though to make some sensational and profane joke of ourselves to the surrounding universe. We beam already video images of beauty pageants and dancing contests with smiling mannequins who look like buffoons. And so, the face of space cloaks itself behind our light pollution—in this respect, our mirrored sidewalks and lustrous streets do little to help our cause—and that face remains hidden from us in its jeering ridicule, its mocking laughter at this inexorable farce of human existence.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["absurdism","imagination","narrative","projection","self-importance","sky","solipsism","technological-progress"],"id":80900,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"The person with an itch can't understand why everyone isn't scratching.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["desire","projection","subjectivity"],"id":81014,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"I project myself to love and devote my time and attention to someone without a reason, so at least I can give someone the feelings of being the most special person in someone’s life.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["attention","devote","feelings","love","projection","reason","time"],"id":101033,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}