{"quotes":[{"text":"All feel justified. To find truth, a man must consider the possibility that he is wrong.","author":"Lance Conrad","tags":["choices","justification","justified","self-exploration","wrong"],"id":1046,"author_id":"Lance+Conrad"},{"text":"Writing allows a person to explore both physical reality and the internal workings of their mind. Writing places us in touch with our unconsciousness. Writing purposefully, applying the white heat of self-examination, can act to transform oneself. Writing allows a person with sufficient resolve to anneal their basic constitution, make their mind more flexible.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["know-thyself","self-determination","self-determination","self-development","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","self-knowing","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","transformation","transformation","writers","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing","writing-life"],"id":4046,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;chose “Angel Band” by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginiaknocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.No one asked why he was so solemn today.It was warm. It was relatively quiet.To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.No one was ever here long enough to know us.And we liked it that way.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["adult-nonfiction","diary","freedom","journal","love","lust","memoir","nonfiction","running-away","self-discovery","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","taylor-rhodes","young-adult","youth-nonfiction"],"id":6206,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"You have to have more than hope to get what you want in life.","author":"Shannon L. 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Analyzing the elemental substance of our personal story from a sundry of viewpoints employing techniques of literature, philosophy, logical reasoning, and abstract thinking assist us perceive our discrete chronicle in symbolic terms and in mythological context.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["memoir","memoir-writing","memoirs","memories","narrative","narrative-writing","non-fiction","non-fiction-books","personal-story","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-examination","self-exploration","story-of-my-life","story-of-your-life","storytelling","writers","writers-on-writing","writers","writing","writing-process","writing"],"id":142081,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"This city is yawning before me, but I'm not tired.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["adventure","coming-of-age","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","taylor-rhodes"],"id":167232,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"I never understood that everyone feels lost temporarily when they want to change their world and the state of their life.","author":"Priya Kumar","tags":["self-discovery","self-exploration","spiritual"],"id":176568,"author_id":"Priya+Kumar"},{"text":"Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon what a person perceives. Essayistic writing is an osmotic process wherein a person intuitively absorbs information and ideas, allows inchoate thoughts to gestate in the unconscious mind, and then consciously places the emergent strands of language and logic into an orderly and expressive format.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["essay-writing","essayist","memoir","memoirs","personal-essay","personal-essays","personal-growth","reflection","reflection-on-life","self-awareness","self-development","self-examination","self-exploration","thinking","writers","writers-on-writing","writers-on-writing-books","writing","writing-life"],"id":260851,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"We screamed this primeval scream built on a base of freedom, raised from beauty of a dying breed, and threw our heads back to laugh or cry, I'm not entirely sure which. But the scream shook the golden sunset, bringing it to its knees.","author":"Taylor Rhodes","tags":["adventure","coming-of-age","self-exploration","sixteenth-notes","sunset","taylor-rhodes","youth"],"id":317769,"author_id":"Taylor+Rhodes"},{"text":"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity – I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.","author":"Plato","tags":["authenticity","character","self-exploration"],"id":332967,"author_id":"Plato"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":21,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}