{"quotes":[{"text":"You don't get to become someone's hero unless you are already another's monster.","author":"Adhish Mazumder","tags":["heroes","monsters","reality","reality-check","truth","truth"],"id":15940,"author_id":"Adhish+Mazumder"},{"text":"Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors– the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["facing-the-truth","freedom","inspirational-life","inspirational-living","reality-check","self-acceptance","self-improvement","self-realization","spiritual-bondage","spiritual-limitations"],"id":23606,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"​Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the constitution, we didn't wake up then, either. Nothing changes instantaneously. In a gradually heating bathtub, you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["handmaid-s-tale","offred","reality-check","remember"],"id":25586,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"},{"text":". . . Failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525).","author":"Franz Werfel","tags":["failure","reality-check","truth"],"id":28684,"author_id":"Franz+Werfel"},{"text":"When I was in the Navy, everyone fell under the purview of “navy gray”. It is the military’s way of reminding its enlisted personnel that they are all equal. Man or woman, black or white, young or old, everyone was navy gray. With God's grace I can proudly say a better understanding of this concept has helped me ameliorate disputes, mend fences that appeared hopeless and find light in the midst of darkness.","author":"Carlos Wallace","tags":["carlos-wallace","darkness","darkness-and-light","darkness-before-dawn","darkness-of-light","gods-grace","hope","hopeless","hopelessness","reality-check"],"id":29851,"author_id":"Carlos+Wallace"},{"text":"It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.","author":"Alice Walsh","tags":["hard-truths","love-story","reality-check"],"id":30559,"author_id":"Alice+Walsh"},{"text":"We live in a world with an ever-growing population. Personal space these days is at a premium. Physically, we are practically tripping over our fellow man. Mentally and spiritually, the divide among us seems to widen.","author":"Carlos Wallace","tags":["carlos-wallace","fellow-man","hate","hatred","hatred","reality-check","reality-of-life","reality","reality-relationship","seperation","seperation-people-earth-illusion","seperations"],"id":36398,"author_id":"Carlos+Wallace"},{"text":"[J]ust the sight of this book, even though it was of no authority, made me wonder how it happened that so many different men – and learned men among them – have been and are so inclined to express both in speaking and in their treatises and writings so many wicked insults about women and their behaviour. Not only one or two ... But, more generally, from the treatises of all philosophers and poets and from all the orators – it would take too long to mention their names – it seems that they all speak from one and the same mouth. Thinking deeply about these matters, I began to examine my character and conduct as a natural woman and, similarly, I considered other women whose company I frequently kept, princesses, great ladies, women of the middle and lower classes, who had graciously told me of their most private and intimate thoughts, hoping that I could judge impartially and in good conscience whether the testimony of so many notable men could be true. To the best of my knowledge, no matter how long I confronted or dissected the problem, I could not see or realise how their claims could be true when compared to the natural behaviour and character of women.","author":"Christine de Pizan","tags":["behaviour","books","character","clichés","conduct","double-standards","empowerment","expectations","feminism","gender","hypocrisy","impartiality","inequality","insults","men","misogyny","morality","preconceptions","prejudice","reality-check","slander","social-norms","stereotypes","women"],"id":42025,"author_id":"Christine+de+Pizan"},{"text":"Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.","author":"Rachel Cohn","tags":["dreams","life","love","nick-norah-s-infinite-playlist","nightmare","reality-check"],"id":44930,"author_id":"Rachel+Cohn"},{"text":"Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.","author":"Fakeer Ishavardas","tags":["funny-but-true","good-and-evil","good-life","healthy-lifestyle","healthy-living","humour-life","inspirational-life","life-and-living","life-lessons","life-lessons","life","lifestyle","motivational","philosophical-musings","reality-check","self-improvement","stupidity-of-man","thinking","wellness-evaluation-of-lifestyle","wellness-guru","wisdom"],"id":47236,"author_id":"Fakeer+Ishavardas"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":81,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}