{"quotes":[{"text":"We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.","author":"Elaina Marie","tags":["choices","want-to-be-seen","who-we-are"],"id":19661,"author_id":"Elaina+Marie"},{"text":"Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["adopt","adoptee","adoptees","adoption","adoption-and-attitude","adoption-day","adoption-month","adoption-search","adoption-story","change","change","discover","discover-yourself","discoveries","discovery","discovery-of-oneself","identity","identity-confusion","identity-crisis","identity-politics","identity","national-adoption-day","national-adoption-month","who-we-are"],"id":41086,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"Our truest reflection reveals that we are what we think, we are what we say and we are what we continuously do.","author":"Jason Versey","tags":["reflection","thoughts-of-the-mind","truth","who-we-are","who-you-are"],"id":62654,"author_id":"Jason+Versey"},{"text":"You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself in ways that mirror the best of who we are.","author":"Moutasem Algharati","tags":["belief","inspirational","love","love-and-sayings","power-of-love","who-we-are"],"id":75146,"author_id":"Moutasem+Algharati"},{"text":"The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["answers","attempt","beauty","beloved","burst","doubts","drown","enigmas","eyes","greatest","hair","in-love","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","lakes","lasso","love","love-movement","love-poem","love-poetry","love-revolution","love-wins","lover","one-love","philosophical","philosophy","puzzles","questions","skin","stars","sun","thinkers","three-big-questions","universe","where-we-are-from","who-we-are","why-we-are-here"],"id":162346,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe.","author":"Marian Deegan","tags":["act","believe","believe-and-acheive","know","matter-more","relevance","what-we-believe","who-we-are"],"id":202990,"author_id":"Marian+Deegan"},{"text":"When someone says 'I Love You,' it is imperative that you know if you are loved for 'WHAT you are' or 'WHO you are.' When the academic qualifications, professionals, positions, possessions, good look, fat bank accounts and all that has been acquired over the years are taken away, all that is left is 'Who you are' - Your Personality (character, values, perceptions.)'We are never truly loved, until we are loved for WHO and not WHAT we are.","author":"Olaotan Fawehinmi","tags":["character","good-look","i-love-you","love","olaotan-fawehinmi","perceptions","personality","positions","possessions","values","what-we-are","who-we-are"],"id":227543,"author_id":"Olaotan+Fawehinmi"},{"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":"It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind.","author":"Sharon Creech","tags":["people","true","who-we-are"],"id":274477,"author_id":"Sharon+Creech"},{"text":"So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. And I'm going to figure out what that is. But right now I'm here with you. And I want to know where you are, what you need, and what you want to do.","author":"Stephen Chbosky","tags":["honesty","integrity","living-in-the-moment","who-we-are"],"id":340995,"author_id":"Stephen+Chbosky"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}