{"quotes":[{"text":"If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["beauty","blind","blindness","contemplation","inner-beauty","love","relationship","seeing","shallowness","thought-provoking","true-love","unconditional-love"],"id":2117,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["being-real","depth","flaws","friendship","honesty","relationships","shallowness","soulmates","true-friends","truth","vanity"],"id":15961,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"We've got so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things--things we can see--as being the measure of a person. We think if we win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart.","author":"Joan Bauer","tags":["joan-bauer","materialism","shallow-appearances","shallowness","squashed","true-love"],"id":31585,"author_id":"Joan+Bauer"},{"text":"...It's exemplification of our moment in American culture and American cultural journalism. It is an accurate document of the discourse of 'takes.' This movie, that book, this poem, that painting, this record, that show: Make a smart remark and move on. A take is an opinion that has no aspiration to a belief, an impression taht never hardens into a position. Its lightness is its appeal. It is provisional, evanescent, a move in a game, an accredited shallowness, a bulwark against a pause in the conversation. A take is expected not to be true but to be interesting, and even when it is interesting it makes no troublesome claim upon anybody's attention. Another take will quickly follow, and the silence that is a mark of perplexity, of research and reflection, will be mercifully kept at bay. A take asks for no affiliation. It requires no commitment.","author":"Leon Wieseltier","tags":["about-art","belief","criticism","on-criticism","opinion","shallowness"],"id":39290,"author_id":"Leon+Wieseltier"},{"text":"Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["amateur","books","dark-knowledge","deep","encompassing","higher","higher-pursuit","idea","shallowness","unskilled","writing"],"id":43417,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The Earth orbits round tables.","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","earth","fake","fake-kindness","fake-people","fake-supporter","interest","politics","quote","round-tables","shallow","shallow-appearances","shallowness","the-earth","the-earth-speaks"],"id":55643,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"I was delighted I had offended her upholstered sensibilities.","author":"Pat Conroy","tags":["pride","shallowness"],"id":98319,"author_id":"Pat+Conroy"},{"text":"I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.","author":"Anthony T. Hincks","tags":["bigger","deeper","ego","find","life","mouth","person","philosophy","shallow","shallowness"],"id":115853,"author_id":"Anthony+T.+Hincks"},{"text":"If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["battles","confidence","conflict","dating","decisions","delusion","dignity","divorce","empty","family","fantasy","fights","friends","glass-is-half-empty","goals","incomplete","inner-work","love-for-one-another","marital-issues","mental-health","real-life","reality","relationship-problems","relationships","self-absorbed","self-esteem","self-evaluation","self-help","self-improvement","self-love","self-work","self-worth","selfish","selfishness","seperation","shallowness","staying-positive","strife","therapy","value"],"id":127251,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["arrogance","arrogant","balance","corruption","ego","egotism","females","flaunt","girls","gossip","gossiping","head","hold-head","humble","humility","ignorant","immaterial","integrity","ladies","lady","materialism","no-merit","no-substance","no-value","pollution","proud","quality","shallow","shallowness","sins","superficial","superficiality","vain","valueless","vanity","virtue","woman","women","women-rights","women-strengths"],"id":149386,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":35,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}