{"quotes":[{"text":"An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human; to seek penance is humankind’s unique act of salvation. Whenever a person fails, it is often their overwhelming sense of anguish that drives them forward to make a second attempt that is far more bighearted than they originally envisioned. The need for redemption drives us to try again despite our backside enduring the terrible weight of our greatest catastrophes. There is no person as magnanimous as a person whom finally encountered tremendous success after previously enduring a tear-filled trail of hardships and repeated setbacks. In an effort to redeem our lost dignity, in an effort to regain self-respect, we find our true selves. By working independently to better ourselves and struggling to fulfill our cherished values, we save ourselves while coincidentally uplifting all of humanity.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["adversity","authentic","authentic-self","error","failure","failure-and-success","failure","forgiveness","forgiveness","forgiving-yourself","hardship","penance","redemption","regret","regret","regrets","remorse","salvation","self-discovery","self-discovery","self-improvement","self-improvement","self-respect","self-respect","shame","shame","sin","true-selves","trying","virtue","virtue","virtuous","virtuous-life","virtuous-person"],"id":27257,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Let's burn our masks at midnightand as flickering flames ascend,under the witness of star-clouds,let us vow to reclaim our true selves.Done with hiding and weary of lying,we'll reconcile without and within.Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns,we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn;blinking at the blazing, wondrous colorswe somehow failed to notice before.","author":"John Mark Green","tags":["authentic-self","authenticity","being-real","burn","carpe-diem","inspiration","inspirational","masks","motivational","motivational","real","true-self","true-selves"],"id":143959,"author_id":"John+Mark+Green"},{"text":"Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, the brokenness and the emotional underdevelopment we all possess is part of who we really are.","author":"Henry Cloud","tags":["emotional-pain","identity","injured","true-self","true-selves","weakness","who-we-are","who-we-truly-are"],"id":244750,"author_id":"Henry+Cloud"},{"text":"Sometimes it is only in our darkest hours that we show our true colours in life.","author":"Anonymous","tags":["darkness","true-selves","wisdom"],"id":261103,"author_id":"Anonymous"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":4,"pages":1}}