{"quotes":[{"text":"What a laugh, though. To think that one human being could ever really know another. You could get used to each other, get so habituated that you could speak their words right along with them, but you never know why other people said what they said or did what they did, because they never even know themselves. Nobody understands anybody.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["truth","understanding-oneself-and-others","understanding-others"],"id":5474,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["conflict","truth","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":10108,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Learn the truth...Never assume.Understand the plight...Never judge.Put yourself in someone's shoes...Never hurt.Think before you act, reason before you react.","author":"Kemi Sogunle","tags":["actions-over-words","conscious-awareness","hurting-others","life","life-and-living","life-lessons","love","reality","reason","reasoning","truth","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":11115,"author_id":"Kemi+Sogunle"},{"text":"Though aging reduces speed, it increases experience and understanding.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["aging","experience","life","old-age","old-age","the-journey-of-life","time-changes","understanding-oneself-and-others","wise-words"],"id":17392,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Life is a chain of interrelated puzzles.Pain and Sorrow are some necessities to greater heights and people may be the architects of our woes. We may develop some hatred for such people through whom the woes of life came our way but when we get to the point where we fully understand why sorrow and pain came our way, we ought to be grateful to those through whom the woes that propelled us to our greatness came.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["forgiveness","greatness","life","life-lessons","life","love","pain","psychology","purpose","purpose-of-life","understanding-oneself-and-others","wisdom"],"id":18053,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes.","author":"Jonathan Anthony Burkett","tags":["family-drama","friendship","friendship-true-and-loyal","jonathan-anthony-burkett","lessons-in-life","lessons-learned","life","love","mistakes-we-make","people","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":48291,"author_id":"Jonathan+Anthony+Burkett"},{"text":"There's an old saying that great writing is simple but not easy, and so it is. The search for that one plain but inobvious [SIC] word that will do the work of five, the agony of untangling a complex idea that has become a mess of phrases in the writer's mind, the willingness to keep doing it over and over again until it is right--all of that plus some luck yields prose so clear that it seems a child could have written it.","author":"William Souder","tags":["brainstorming","creative-thinking","insight","understanding-oneself-and-others","writing-process"],"id":48889,"author_id":"William+Souder"},{"text":"It's very strange that WE always wish to listen good for ourselves from others, but at the same time becomes tough for us to speak good for OTHERS.","author":"Neeraj Bhanot","tags":["praise","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":49282,"author_id":"Neeraj+Bhanot"},{"text":"When the world kicks your ass, don't step in line.Book: stuff I think about.","author":"Sondra Faye","tags":["ass","feminist","helplessness","self-esteem","self-esteem-self-help-book","underdog","understanding-oneself-and-others"],"id":56854,"author_id":"Sondra+Faye"},{"text":"A common understanding is the pivot and a common way to bond the disintegrated.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["freedom","love","misunderstanding","peace-making","peace-on-earth","understanding-oneself-and-others","understanding-others","understanding"],"id":64338,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":69,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}