{"quotes":[{"text":"What we can see in most societies is the gravity of suffering, tears of sorrow and nightmares of hopelessness.","author":"Nilantha Ilangamuwa","tags":["liberty","politics-freedom-liberty","social-anxiety","social-justice"],"id":29594,"author_id":"Nilantha+Ilangamuwa"},{"text":"Here are three separate but similar things: shyness, introversion and social anxiety. You can have one, two or all three of these things simultaneously. A lot of the time people thing they're all the same thing, but that's just not true. Extroverts can be shy, introverts can be bold, and a condition like anxiety can strike whatever kind of social animal you are. Lots of people are shy. Shy is normal. A bit of anxiety is normal. Throw the two together, add some brain-signal error - a NO ENTRY sign on the neural highway from my brain to my mouth perhaps, though no one really knows - and you have me.","author":"Sara Barnard","tags":["a-quiet-kind-of-thunder","anxiety","mental-illness","panic-attack","social-anxiety"],"id":30594,"author_id":"Sara+Barnard"},{"text":"I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!!","author":"Minoru Furuya","tags":["fear","high-school","life","living","manga","mental-illness","paranoia","people","social-anxiety","society","work"],"id":30908,"author_id":"Minoru+Furuya"},{"text":"That the military have the power to manipulate personal liberties while cocking a snook at justice and freedom in Balochistan is a fact.","author":"Nilantha Ilangamuwa","tags":["freedom","justice","liberty","social-anxiety"],"id":40581,"author_id":"Nilantha+Ilangamuwa"},{"text":"He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.","author":"Osamu Dazai","tags":["death","depression","fear","friendship","life","loneliness","mental-illness","social-anxiety","social-awkwardness","suicidal","suicide"],"id":40794,"author_id":"Osamu+Dazai"},{"text":"Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills.Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.","author":"Carlos Ruiz Zafón","tags":["people","social-anxiety"],"id":48323,"author_id":"Carlos+Ruiz+Zaf%C3%B3n"},{"text":"The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopeless sense of inferiority, must be conquered now and thrust aside. If I failed now I should fail forever.","author":"Daphne du Maurier","tags":["fear","inferiority","shyness","social-anxiety"],"id":48853,"author_id":"Daphne+du+Maurier"},{"text":"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.","author":"Helen Keller","tags":["books","literature","reading","social-anxiety","words"],"id":56572,"author_id":"Helen+Keller"},{"text":"Social systems are neither a consumer product that we can buy or rent from the market nor a material that we can import from another country. It is not a creation of the almighty gifted from the heavens. A social system is a creation of mankind. That is a reflection of our responsibilities. In other words, the social system is the result of our behavior and the decisions we take in our way of life.","author":"Nilantha Ilangamuwa","tags":["freedom","justice","liberty","social-anxiety"],"id":67007,"author_id":"Nilantha+Ilangamuwa"},{"text":"We do not have to dig deep into history to understand the reality. The examples of Saddam Hussain, who was executed after a sham trial and the case of Muammar Gaddafi, who killed after surrendering in broad daylight, have given enough factual reality to understand the painful truth.","author":"Nilantha Ilangamuwa","tags":["international","international-relations","liberty","politics","social-anxiety"],"id":69354,"author_id":"Nilantha+Ilangamuwa"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":54,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}