{"quotes":[{"text":"Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…Whenever you are self-conscious you are simply showing that you are not conscious of the self at all. You don’t know who you are. If you had known, then there would have been no problem— then you are not seeking opinions. Then you are not worried what others say about you— it is irrelevant!When you are self-conscious you are in trouble. When you are self-conscious you are really showing symptoms that you don’t know who you are. Your very self-consciousness indicates that you have not come home yet.","author":"Osho","tags":["ego","meditation","osho","self-consciousness"],"id":23553,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["calling","conciousness","conversion","convert","gift","great","greatness","humanity","life","living-life","poverty","produce","product","productivity","purpose","self-consciousness","time","value","waste","wealth","work","world"],"id":34549,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.","author":"Owen Gingerich","tags":["life","profundity","purpose","self-consciousness","universe"],"id":34552,"author_id":"Owen+Gingerich"},{"text":"A face-lift is a woman’s attempt to lower the odds of the next person accurately guessing her age.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["age","aging","facelift","self-consciousness"],"id":37511,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.","author":"John Shelby Spong","tags":["life","man","mankind","nature","self-consciousness"],"id":41873,"author_id":"John+Shelby+Spong"},{"text":"Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.","author":"Robert Anton Wilson","tags":["ideology","people","religion","self-consciousness"],"id":49925,"author_id":"Robert+Anton+Wilson"},{"text":"There is certainly no hope left of getting away. And it isn't even terrible; it's possibly funny, if even that. It's embarrassing. That's all. A little embarrassing to realize that I no longer control my life, that the major decisions have already been made, long before I was conscious that any change was occurring.","author":"Philip K. Dick","tags":["determinism","futility","modernity","self-consciousness","society"],"id":68748,"author_id":"Philip+K.+Dick"},{"text":"Self-consciousness is hell.","author":"Marty Rubin","tags":["hell","self-consciousness"],"id":69987,"author_id":"Marty+Rubin"},{"text":"Self consciousness is the ultimate wisdom of life.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","self-consciousness","wisdom-of-life"],"id":85136,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"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"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":58,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}