{"quotes":[{"text":"We are always immeasurably bigger than the little person we’ve too often doomed ourselves to be.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bigger","doom","doomed","inferior","inferiority","minimize","person","reduce","sabotage","self","self-concept","self-esteem","underestimate"],"id":4683,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.","author":"Paul Valéry","tags":["identity","self-concept"],"id":10957,"author_id":"Paul+Val%C3%A9ry"},{"text":"Midland City had a goddess of discord all its own. This was a goddess who could not dance, would not dance, and hated everybody at the high school. She would like to claw away her face, she told us, so that people would stop seeing things in it that had nothing to do with what she was like inside. She was ready to die at any time, she said, because what men and boys thought about her and tried to do to her made her so ashamed. One of the first things she was going to do when she got to heaven, she said, was to ask somebody what was written on her face and why had it been put there.","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["beauty","depression","face","goddess","self-concept","shame"],"id":13369,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"I’m creating a self help show called Self Talk. I’ll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach \u0026 my mother-in-law.","author":"Ryan Lilly","tags":["coach","fitness","humor","mother-in-law","podcast","radio","self-concept","self-esteem","self-help","self-talk","show"],"id":41732,"author_id":"Ryan+Lilly"},{"text":"In evaluating ourselves, we tend to be long on our weaknesses and short on our strengths.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["abilities","bias","disabilities","discernment","evaluation","introspection","introspective","negatives","positives","self-assessment","self-concept","self-esteem","self-evaluation","strengths","weaknesses"],"id":68079,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["comparison-to-others","confidence","god","self-concept","self-doubt","self-esteem","self-evaluation","self-perception","value","worth"],"id":75617,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking ‘muck’ across the floor of fact.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["distortion","fact","fear","fearful","fiction","frightened","honest","honesty","lies","mad","madly","muck","self-concept","self-esteem","self-perception","self-understanding","track","truth"],"id":98042,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"You are not made in ‘your image’. You are, in fact, made in ‘God’s image’. Therefore, which one are you looking for when you look in the mirror?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["christian","god","identity","image","jesus","mirror","reflection","self","self-concept"],"id":196050,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The nature of the 'collapse of the wave function' is determined by our self-concept stored in the subconscious mind. Our subconscious mind is aware of the 'many-worlds' occurring simultaneously and chooses the reality we continue to exist in based on our self-concept.","author":"Kevin Michel","tags":["bohr","hugh-everett","many-worlds","many-worlds-interpretation","parallel-universes","quantum-mechanics","quantum-physics","self-concept","self-esteem","subconscious","subconscious-mind","subconscious-mind-power","wave-function"],"id":284410,"author_id":"Kevin+Michel"},{"text":"When the world does its level best to devalue me in ways that are nothing short of brutal, all it does is evidence my value. For why would it expend such massive amounts of energy attempting to destroy something that’s not there?","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["bullying","confident","secure","self","self-assured","self-concept","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-improvement","self-love","self-value","self-worth","value","worth"],"id":302179,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}