{"quotes":[{"text":"Until we see what we are  we cannot take steps to become what we should be.","author":"Charlotte P. Gilman","tags":["self","knowledge"],"id":85,"author_id":"Charlotte+P.+Gilman"},{"text":"Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.","author":"Ellen Sue Stern","tags":["self","acceptance"],"id":244,"author_id":"Ellen+Sue+Stern"},{"text":"The belief that personality is mysterious and irreducible has no scientific warrant, and is accepted chiefly because it is flattering to our human self esteem.","author":"Bertrand Russell","tags":["philosophy","science","self"],"id":280,"author_id":"Bertrand+Russell"},{"text":"Rather than being guided by images of how to be, people need to attend to how they actually are and to respect this.","author":"Leslie S. Greenberg","tags":["psychology","self"],"id":586,"author_id":"Leslie+S.+Greenberg"},{"text":"Exude happiness and you will feel it back a thousand times.","author":"Joan Lunden","tags":["self","reliance"],"id":671,"author_id":"Joan+Lunden"},{"text":"People's hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what's at the bottom. All you can do is guess from what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["character","idea","self"],"id":708,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["animal","arrogance","be-yourself","chase","circle","consideration","dog","ego","help","helping-others","narcissism","others","pet","pride","pursue","rhetorical","self","selfish","selflessness","serve","serving-others"],"id":764,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["accept","acceptance","answer","ask","begin","better","betterment","compassion","compassionate","condition","conversations","converse","empathy","friend","friendship","good","hear","improvement","judge","judgement","judgment","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kind","kindness","know","knowledge","kojouri","listen","listener","love","love","lover","mindful","mindfulness","ourselves","quote","quotes","reply","reserve","respond","self","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","sincerely"],"id":1026,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene  but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.","author":"Florida Scott-Maxwell","tags":["self","confidence"],"id":1087,"author_id":"Florida+Scott-Maxwell"},{"text":"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.","author":"Eric Hoffer","tags":["beginning","beliefs","critical-thinking","critical-thought","disagreement","evaluation","self","self-evaluation","thought","views"],"id":1521,"author_id":"Eric+Hoffer"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3190,"pages":319,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}