{"quotes":[{"text":"Life was about loss. One minute standing on the promise of your dreams, then free-falling backward into nothingness. Is this what it meant to grow old? To gradually be stripped of all you cared about. And then what? Were you supposed to spend the rest of your life, dreaming about the past while you waited to die? Or did you start a new life, set the cycle in motion once again. Take the chance of losing that, too. And if you did, what happened to the old life? Did it die away from lack of attention?","author":"Shelley Noble","tags":["backwards","confused","confused-mind","confusion","dreams","life","living","losing-hope","loss","new-life","past","questioning","the-past","understanding-yourself"],"id":114880,"author_id":"Shelley+Noble"},{"text":"If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.","author":"Bruce Lee","tags":["knowing-oneself","routine","traditions","understanding","understanding-yourself"],"id":166064,"author_id":"Bruce+Lee"},{"text":"I'm sorry about what happened,' Love said. Death squeezed his hand. 'Play as yourself. Not as me. Trust me one that.","author":"Martha Brockenbrough","tags":["death","guilt","love","understanding-yourself"],"id":210733,"author_id":"Martha+Brockenbrough"},{"text":"We cannot honor those we have lost if we lose our minds. - Charmainism.","author":"Charmaine Smith Ladd","tags":["grief-and-loss","inspirational-charmainism-s","life-lessons","loving-yourself","memoir","self-help-improvement","understanding-yourself"],"id":283499,"author_id":"Charmaine+Smith+Ladd"},{"text":"If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure.","author":"Andrew Solomon","tags":["depression","understanding-yourself"],"id":296240,"author_id":"Andrew+Solomon"},{"text":"You seem irrelevant because your relevance seems latent. You seem irrelevant because your relevance is not speaking the language they understand. You seem irrelevant because you have not yet proven the evidence that is relevant. You seem irrelevant because you are still holding your relevance. People are more interested in works that work than mere works. People are much more interested in the relevance of actions than mere actions. People are more interested in your whole self in action and the relevance of the action than your mere action. There is something to be done. There is a footprint to leave. We must do something relevant. A proven relevance is relevant for our relevance in all matters of life.","author":"Ernest Agyemang Yeboah","tags":["branding","branding","doing-your-best","feeling-relevant","inspirational","latent-action","life-and-living","life-lessons","matters-of-life","matters-of-the-heart","procrastination","purpose-driven-life","relevance","relevance-of-principles","staying-focused","staying-positive","understanding-yourself","wisdom"],"id":312252,"author_id":"Ernest+Agyemang+Yeboah"},{"text":"Light and the human is poorly understood by the astronomicalprofession, with many astronomers not understanding which light bulbs they should have in their ownhomes and offices! It is embarrassing that astronomers do not understand the many forms of artificiallighting that they are exposed to every day and how it affects them.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["affect","affected","artificial","artificial-life","artificial-light","astronomer","astronomical","astronomics","astronomy","bulb","bulbs","day","daylight","expose","exposed","home","light","light-and-darkness","lights","office","office-worker","understanding","understanding-god","understanding-life","understanding-oneself","understanding-the-nature-of-god","understanding-yourself"],"id":346030,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"But here is the thing about anger: People hold onto it because letting go means dealing with pain. It is a coping strategy that seems to show strength and confidence, but in reality it shows how much you care about someone's actions, which leads to this question: Why is this person's respect so important to you?","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["anger","growth","layers","learning","respect","self-realization","understanding-choices","understanding-yourself"],"id":393229,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}