{"quotes":[{"text":"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affluent","bashful","broke","confidence","confident","destitute","introvert","introverted","low-self-esteem","money","needy","penniless","poor","poverty","poverty-stricken","reserved","rich","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-esteem","sheepish","shy","shyness","timid","wealth","wealthy"],"id":86631,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"You looked strange climbing in the tree like that.'Tiger Lily pulled her braids between her fingers, her sudden self-consciousness feeling foreign and strange to her. 'I didn't do it to look nice,' she said.'But you do care.'Tiger Lily studied the tree and decided if she did care, she would now choose not to. 'I don't,' she said.'All girls do,' he added, pushing the point.'You must not know many girls.'I know a million,' Peter said, dark and serious. There was a long awkward silence, but if Peter regretted his words, I couldn't tell.","author":"Jodi Lynn Anderson","tags":["boy","climbing","climbing-trees","girl","peter-pan","self-conscious","tiger-lily"],"id":98348,"author_id":"Jodi+Lynn+Anderson"},{"text":"High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["appearance","attire","church","clothes","clothing","denial","footwear","god","heaven","hell","high-heels","image","looks","presentation","public","religion","self-conscious","self-consciousness","shoes","short","subconscious","theism","theists","women"],"id":119354,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"There is a very fine line (almost transparent), between cordiality and hypocrisy--knowing to distinguish them is a gift of Gods.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["cordial","cordiality","hypocrisy","hypocrisy-in-everyone","hypocrite","self-aware","self-conscious","self-esteem","self-love","spiritual-growth","spiritual-life","spiritual-wisdom"],"id":156339,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that it was like the almost constant burden of some vague grief. And bound up with it all was an implacable sense of personal duty and the grim determination to present himself at his best, to conceal his frailties by any means possible, and to keep up appearances. It had all contributed to making his existence what it was: artificial, self-conscious, and forced—until every word, every gesture, the slightest deed in the presence of others had become a taxing and grueling part in a play.","author":"Thomas Mann","tags":["acting","actor","appearances","artifice","artificial","decline","family","hollowness","self-conscious"],"id":158122,"author_id":"Thomas+Mann"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"...Don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...","author":"John Geddes","tags":["confidence","self-conscious","self-realization","selfish","unaware"],"id":262905,"author_id":"John+Geddes"},{"text":"Stop being self-conscious when you write.You are the expert about the world you are creating,no one else. So be bold and write on.","author":"Nirav Sanchaniya","tags":["be-bold","creating","expert","feel","feeling","i","life","live","no-one","people","reality","self-conscious","we","world","write","write-on","you","yourself"],"id":346716,"author_id":"Nirav+Sanchaniya"},{"text":"God knows your every need.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["anxiety","christian","desire","despair","faith","god","god-s-grace","gratitude","hope","joy","joyful-living","life","life-lessons","need","positive","self-conscious","self-help","self-love","thankful","thanksgiving","want","wishes","worry"],"id":355034,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["appearance","blacks","braces","civilization","culture","dentist","gold","gold-tooth","races","self-conscious","self-consciousness","teeth","tooth","whites"],"id":365890,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}