{"quotes":[{"text":"There is no need searching for love, it cannot be found-it happens!","author":"Itohan Eghide","tags":["calm-down","careless","chances","each-other","found","friendship","happen","i-love-you","love","love-happens","love-within","loving-someone","meeting","patience","profound","relationships","retreat","soft","somewhere","soulmate","spontaneity","spontaneous","struggle","together","true-love","withdrawn"],"id":6347,"author_id":"Itohan+Eghide"},{"text":"She fails to see who I am, even, for her eyes do not, will not, take me in. Instead they transmit a powerful message. She is like a billboard flashing, starkly: 'Keep Out'.","author":"Carol Lee","tags":["emotional-disengagement","emotional-distance","ignoring-people","isolation","mental-disorder","mental-illness","withdrawn"],"id":78726,"author_id":"Carol+Lee"},{"text":"I am two people. One goes through the motions, rolling from one thing to the next; the other is withdrawn, watching a complete stranger.","author":"Doug Cooper","tags":["duality","going-through-the-motions","identity","outside-in","stranger","withdrawn"],"id":107457,"author_id":"Doug+Cooper"},{"text":"I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are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withdrawn","world"],"id":117388,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affable","alone","amicable","anchoress","anchorite","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","antisocial","approachable","ascetic","by-oneself","chummy","cloistered","clubby","communicative","companionable","companionless","convivial","cordial","eremite","extrovert","forthcoming","friendless","friendly","genial","gregarious","hail-fellow-well-met","hermit","hermitic","incommunicado","introvert","isolate","isolation","lone-wolf","lonely","loner","lonesome","marabout","misanthrope","misanthropy","on-one-s-own","open","outgoing","recluse","reclusive","responsive","seclude","secluded","sociable","solitarian","solitary","solitudinarian","troglodyte","unaccompanied","unsociable","warm","withdrawn"],"id":125070,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["aggravating","annoy","annoying","aphorism","aphorisms","aphorist","aphorists","aplomb","assertive","assertiveness","assured","at-ease","bashful","bashfulness","boldness","bothersome","can-do","confident","coolheaded","courage","coyness","cursed","demureness","diffidence","diffident","embarrassed","embarrassment","exasperating","extrovert","extroverted","farouche","funny","galling","girl","girls","hilarious","humor","humorous","humour","imperturbable","infuriating","inhibited","insecure","introversion","introvert","introverted","irksome","irritate","irritating","irritation","joke","jokes","lack-of-confidence","levelheaded","maddening","man","men","mettle","mousiness","mousy","nerve","nervous","nettlesome","obnoxious","pesky","phlegm","phlegmatic","poise","poised","positive","quotations","quotes","repressed","reserve","reserved","reservedness","reticence","reticent","retiring","satire","self-assurance","self-assured","self-confidence","self-confident","self-conscious","self-consciousness","self-effacing","self-possessed","self-possession","self-reliant","sheepish","sheepishness","shy","shyness","timid","timidity","timidness","timorous","timorousness","tiresome","together","troublesome","trying","unconfident","unperturbed","unruffled","vexatious","vexing","withdrawn"],"id":173966,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"I don't purchase people with money, or hiss like a snake to attract their attention, all I do is to rest on my couch because I have the conviction that no human can progress with an exception without a power behind.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attraction","aura","beg","beggar","beggars","belief","believe-in-yourself","breakthrough","condescend","condescending","condescension","content","contented","conviction","equanimity","excel","fame","hiss","honor","honour","humility","individuality","meek","michael-bassey-johnson","money","much-ado-about-nothing","mystic","popularity","power-behind","pride","progress","reserved","self-reliance","self-respect","snake","unpopularity","withdrawal","withdrawn"],"id":319660,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.","author":"Tyler Hamilton","tags":["depression","depression","depression-recovery","mental-illness","recovery","withdrawn"],"id":406146,"author_id":"Tyler+Hamilton"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":8,"pages":1}}