{"quotes":[{"text":"You can never take anything personally. Just a story. It’s not their fault they want to kick you and it’s certainly not yours. It’s just the way things are. Sometimes you need to hear the worst, so you have no fear in what you do and learn to work around the what-have-you.","author":"Initially NO","tags":["advice","fault","hearing-the-worst","kind","learning-curve","taking-things-personally","working-around"],"id":13521,"author_id":"Initially+NO"},{"text":"When someone is cruel, harsh, mean, to not take their words personally is one thing, but to hear the silent cry within those words is another. This sort of perspective can not only liberate us from crippling self-doubt in the face of criticism, it can also liberate us from automatically becoming blind participants in the interaction patterns that the cruel person has become accustomed to—a favour we do for the other person as much as for ourselves.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["blindness","bullying","compassion","criticism","empathy","kindness","liberation","patterns","perspective","self-awareness","self-care","self-doubt","suffering","taking-things-personally","understanding"],"id":203148,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"When you lose your ego, you win. It really is that simple.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["accepting-personalities","authentic-self","being-free","communication","confidence","ego","egotistical","everything-is-not-about-you","family","freedom","friends","gossip","growing-up","guessing","internalizing","letting-people-in","listening","low-self-esteem","members","narcissism","not-caring","opening-up","overthinking","paranoia","personalizing","reading-between-the-lines","reading-in-to-everything","seeing","self-directed","self-esteem","settings","siblings","social-circles","speculation","taking-things-personally","target","understanding","victomization","winning","wisdom"],"id":268697,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?","author":"Michael Marshall Smith","tags":["heart","objectivity","taking-things-personally"],"id":448712,"author_id":"Michael+Marshall+Smith"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}