{"quotes":[{"text":"To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["calling","choices","death","die","greed","hunger","hungry","materialism","meaning","mission","purpose","selfish","starve","superficiality","value"],"id":2241,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots.","author":"Ulysses Brave","tags":["beauty","superficiality"],"id":17682,"author_id":"Ulysses+Brave"},{"text":"Elizabeth scowled, feeling like a nobody, a nothing. She felt like her entire self had been made worthless. She could change her interests, but she couldn’t change her looks. She’d never be six feet tall. She’d never look like a supermodel.","author":"Francine Pascal","tags":["self-esteem","superficiality","supermodels","sweet-valley","worthless"],"id":27327,"author_id":"Francine+Pascal"},{"text":"Just be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["honesty","originality","self-worth","superficiality"],"id":50658,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. One may be preoccupied with shopping and income tax returns and chance conversations, but the stream of the unconscious continues to flow undisturbed, solving problems, planning ahead: one sits down sterile and dispirited at the desk, and suddenly the words come as though from the air: the situations that seemed blocked in a hopeless impasse move forward: the work has been done while one slept or shopped or talked with friends.","author":"Graham Greene","tags":["composition","creative-process","daily-life","preoccupations","subconscious","superficiality","writing"],"id":87422,"author_id":"Graham+Greene"},{"text":"What must it be like for a woman to live with power over men rivaled only by God for the first third of her life, build her identity over her looks, only to feel it slip away as time tumbles by? Feel the shift in how people treat her, as though getting old is a contagious affliction?","author":"Tyler Knight","tags":["beauty","modeling","superficiality","women"],"id":92383,"author_id":"Tyler+Knight"},{"text":"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","appearance","beautiful","beauty","bukowski","classic","classics","loneliness","lonely","mirror","people","poem","poetry","reflection","self","self-esteem","soul","superficial","superficial-beauty","superficiality","ugly"],"id":107911,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Vanity and superficiality, placed deliberately on display, can be a burden; take this nonsense overboard.","author":"Kristian Goldmund Aumann","tags":["superficiality","vanity"],"id":113423,"author_id":"Kristian+Goldmund+Aumann"},{"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"},{"text":"True beauty is measured by the number of pearls within you, not those around your neck.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["beautiful","beauty","character","education","fake","intelligence","knowledge","learning","life","material","materialism","meditation","mindfulness","patience","pearls","philosophy","poet","poetry","spiritual","stupid","substance","superficial","superficiality","swan","swine","true","true-beauty","truth","wisdom","wise","words"],"id":152553,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}