{"quotes":[{"text":"If only you could be yourself.' they shouted. So, she did. 'You are not like me or anyone I have met!' they screamed. So, she blended. 'You are so fake.' they laughed. So, the caterpillar retreated to her cocoon to find peace alone. One day, they came to find her gone. She left a message, “God knew I was different and gave me these beautiful wings because he meant for me to fly. You see...I wasn’t meant to be like you. I was meant to be me--better.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["beauty","compassion","different","divergent","god-s-love","goodness","inner-light","kindness","love","loving-yourself","outer-and-inner-beauty","quality","self-confidence","self-respect","unique","wisdom"],"id":918,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The best don’t stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["class","confident-women","desperate","dignity","fools","higher-standards","integrity","letting-go","moving-on","quality","self-confidence","self-respect","self-worth","warrior-women"],"id":1011,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"You can't have it both ways. Either you believe in my god or you go to hell.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","hell","hell","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":1477,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"They will call you crazy once you stop living someone else’s dream and start living your own.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["crazy","determination","determined-spirit","living-someone-else-s-dream","living-your-dreams","living-your-life","self-awareness-honesty-self","self-respect","self-worth"],"id":6780,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"You think because he doesn't love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn't want you anymore that he is right -- that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don't. It's a bad word, 'belong.' Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn't be like that. Did you ever see the way the clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, beacuse the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him. You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself.","author":"Toni Morrison","tags":["emotion","love","self-respect","value"],"id":8774,"author_id":"Toni+Morrison"},{"text":"You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anxiety","awareness","brainwashed","confidence","controlling-partner","empowering","false-angels","fear","gutter","have-confidence","jealous-women","jealousy","relationship-101","religious-guilt","rise-up","self-appreciation","self-confidence","self-esteen","self-gratitude","self-love","self-respect","women","worth"],"id":8787,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"[P]eople with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes. They know the price of things.","author":"Joan Didion","tags":["courage","mistakes","self-respect"],"id":10650,"author_id":"Joan+Didion"},{"text":"Ignorance is the master key of all evils.","author":"Efrat Cybulkiewicz","tags":["evil","ignorance","knolwedge","self-love","self-realization","self-respect","wisdom","wise"],"id":10853,"author_id":"Efrat+Cybulkiewicz"},{"text":"No one knows what god thinks of anything. He only knows and no one can claim to penetrate into his mysteries. Those who do that are liars and must be avoided at all costs.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["afterlife","agnostic","agnostic-atheism","agnostic-prayer","agnostic","agnostic","agnosticism","agnostics","atheism","atheism-defined","atheism","atheist","atheist-argument","atheist-arguments","atheist-claims","atheist-club","atheist-philosophers","atheist","atheistic","atheistic-philosophy","atheistic-religion","atheists","bangambiki","belief","belief-in-god","belief","belief-system","beliefs","believer","believing","debate","despair-and-attitude","despair-hope","despair","despairing","doubt","doubters","doubtful","doubtful-thoughts","doubtfulness","doubting","doubting-mind","doubts","doubts","ethics","existence","existentialism","faith","faith-in-god","faith-in-yourself","faith","faith-reason","faith-vs-reason","faithful","faithfulness","false-god","false-gods","fear-of-god","god","god-s-mysteries","god-s-secrets","goddess","gods","habyarimana-bangambiki","heaven","heaven-and-hell","heaven-on-earth","heaven","heavenly","heavenly-father","heavenly-rewards","heavens","honesty","honesty-friendship-truth","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty-integrity-relationship","honesty-integrity-words","honesty","hope","hope-and-despair","hope-for-each-day","hope","hopeful","hopeful-and-encouraging","hopeful","hopeless","hopelessness","hopes","hoping","integrity","integrity-of-a-salesman","integrity","liars","liars","lie","life","lose-hope","materialism","meaning-of-life","morality","naturalism","paradise","paradise","paradises","religion","religion-and-philoshophy","religion-spirituality","religion-vs-science","religious","religious-faith","respect","secular-ethics","self-respect","sincerity","spirituality","spirituality","spirituality-vs-religion","supernaturalism","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","theologian","theologians","theologians","theology","theology-of-religions","theology","there-is-no-god","unbelief","unbelieve","unbeliever","unbelievers"],"id":11507,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":"Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.","author":"S.R. Ford","tags":["coping","dan-barker","good-habits","self-respect"],"id":13860,"author_id":"S.R.+Ford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":403,"pages":41,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}