{"quotes":[{"text":"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["avoid","avoidance","challenges","challenging","comfort","comfortable","excellence","familiarity","fear","laziness","lazy","mediocrity","retreat","routine","stance","withdraw","withdrawal"],"id":51564,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"The dark might be dark, but at least we don’t have to look at ourselves when we’re standing in it.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["accountability","accountable","ashamed","dark","darkness","denial","escape","escaping","flee","fleeing","hide","hiding","honest","honesty","integrity","responsibility","responsible","retreat","retreating","self-evaluation","shame","stand","standing","withdraw","withdrawal"],"id":81440,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenced himself to a prison within which I do not belong.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["fear","fearful","hiding","imprisonment","incarcerate","incarceration","isolate","isolation","lock","panic","prison","protect","protection","recluse","retreat","seclude","shelter","withdraw","withdrawn","world"],"id":117388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"If I’m perplexed by the fact that I’m constantly lost, maybe somewhere in my head I’ve determined that being lost serves a greater purpose than being found.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["confused","confusion","decide","decision","escape","escaping","find","flee","fleeing","found","hidden","hide","intent","intention","lost","perplexed","purpose","purposeful","retreat","running","wander","wandering","withdraw","withdrawal"],"id":259454,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"When the competent men of the system are compelled to quit, the system will soon quit itself.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["able","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri-writer","compelled","competence","competent","forced","government","inspirational","man","management","men","merit","motivational","part-of-system","philosophy","politics","quit","quitting","resign","soon","system","wisdom","withdraw"],"id":274473,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"You can edit what you write. Why not edit what you say? If it hurts somebody, you can still offer an apology or withdraw your statements.","author":"Bangambiki Habyarimana","tags":["apologies","apologize","apologize","apologizing","apologizing","apology","apology-and-attitude","apology-note","apology","bangambiki","book","book-lovers","book","book","books","creation","creativity","creativity","edit","editing","editing","editing-words","how-to-write","how-to-write-a-book","how-to-write-a-novel","how-to-write-fiction","imagination","imagination-writing","inspiration","paper","sorry","sorry-for","sorry","sorry","success-in-writing","the-great-pearl-of-wisdom","withdraw","writers-and-writing","writers-block","writers-inspiration","writers-life","writers-lives","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writers","writers-books","writers-world","writing","writing-advice","writing-books","writing-from-the-heart","writing-from-the-soul","writing-inspiration","writing-life","writing-philosophy","writing-process","writing-secrets","writing-success","writing-success","writing-tip","writing-tips"],"id":321343,"author_id":"Bangambiki+Habyarimana"},{"text":".. When all this started, I asked myself, 'Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?' I decided I'm going to live - or at least try to live - the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.","author":"Mitch Albom","tags":["choice","cope","courage","death","decision","dignity","humour","life","way-of-life","withdraw"],"id":391134,"author_id":"Mitch+Albom"},{"text":"Her complexity is a glorious fire that consumes, while her simplicity goes unapproachable. But if one takes time to understand her, there is something beautiful to find, something simple to be loved. But she goes unloved, for being misunderstood.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["alone","avoid","beautiful","complexity","consume","difficult","empty","find","fire","glorious","ignore","judge","love","misunderstood","overlook","pay-no-attention","simple","simplicity","unapproachable","understand","unfulfilled","unloved","untouched","waste","withdraw"],"id":394169,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Sometimes I wonder, that one missing sock after doing laundry, is the smart one. After being unhappy for so long, it finally walks away from a frayed, worn-out relationship.","author":"Anthony Liccione","tags":["away","broken-marriage","clothes","cotton","couple","depart","depressed","disappear","feet","frayed","go","laundry","leave","long","lost","missing-sock","pair","relationship","sad","shoe","smart","sock","sorrowful","unhappy","vanish","walks-away","withdraw","worn-out","wretched"],"id":452959,"author_id":"Anthony+Liccione"},{"text":"Undoubtedly, our weariness is not based on the fact that we’re running. Rather, our weariness is all too frequently based on the fact that many of the things that we’re running from are the very things we should be running to.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["direction","fatigued","flee","flight","goals","run","running","tired","weariness","weary","withdraw","withdrawal"],"id":455639,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}