{"quotes":[{"text":"For wordsmiths and masters of words, without necessarily being harsh with words, the words have a tendency to shoot straight to the hearts of people, and this either deeply touches them or deeply angers them. Like the apostles in all their loving controversies are those who are masters of words while combining this gift with truth.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anger","controversy","evangelism","heart","philosophy","prophet","rejection","theology","truth","word"],"id":2919,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Rejection is a blade to the heart. It's the worst kind of pain.","author":"Toni Sorenson","tags":["heart","life","pain","rejection"],"id":4847,"author_id":"Toni+Sorenson"},{"text":"It's quite commonplace for a young man to fall in love and equally commonplace for him to be rejected, but come what may, I'll always be fond of you.","author":"Margaret Way","tags":["fondness","heartbreak","heartbroken","love","men","rejection","young-men"],"id":4944,"author_id":"Margaret+Way"},{"text":"Strange, how the name Israel, God's own chosen nation, who don't believe Jesus to be the Messiah, sounds almost the same as saying 'is He real?","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["israel","jesus","jewish","messiah","nation","rejection"],"id":7804,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["culture","heritage","originality","reject","rejection","tree"],"id":9497,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Chase your dreams until you catch them...And then dream, catch, and dream again! ","author":"Dee Marie","tags":["inspiration","rejection","writing"],"id":9922,"author_id":"Dee+Marie"},{"text":"Many a man has been ashamed of his wicked attempts, when he has been repulsed, that would never have been ashamed of them, had he succeeded.","author":"Samuel Richardson","tags":["pamela","rejection","shame"],"id":15072,"author_id":"Samuel+Richardson"},{"text":"Oftentimes in a society when people of a certain type, whether individual or a group, are subconsciously portrayed by the media as abnormal, they also slowly, subconsciously become enemies of that society due to feelings of cultural guilt. Ultimately by this the inflated media is an enemy of its very own cause.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["abnormal","cultural-guilt","culture","different","guilt","media","outcast","rejection","society","subconscious"],"id":18342,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Have you had a failure or rejection? You could get bitter. That's one way to deal with it. Or...You could just get BETTER. What do you think?","author":"Destiny Booze","tags":["failure","inspirational","motivational","rejection"],"id":23219,"author_id":"Destiny+Booze"},{"text":"I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.","author":"Kazuo Ishiguro","tags":["bittersweet","broken-heart","mr-stevens","powerful","rejection","simple"],"id":26875,"author_id":"Kazuo+Ishiguro"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":217,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}