{"author":"Chelsey Philpot","author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot","total_quotes":14,"quotes":[{"text":"We cannot 100 percent know the depth of another person’s heart. We cannot know the whys and whats of his soul.This idea could be sad, but it doesn’t have to be. Instead of rendering human beings powerless, it could render them more compassionate. Knowing that the stranger who just bumped you in the hall or that the awkward loner who sits behind you in class each have a story, makes it easier to chose kindness — again, again, and again.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["compassion","humanity","kindness"],"id":330,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"Even knowing, as I do now, that grace, power, and, yes, love can hide the darkest elements of the human heart, I would do it all again.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["inspirational","love","memory"],"id":7273,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"Childhood is not all candy stores and recess; it’s frustrations and confusions, too.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["childhood","reading"],"id":45117,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"This is not something anyone can teach you. Heartbreak you must learn on your own.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["heartbreak","life","love","romance"],"id":82364,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"I’m sorry,’ I whispered. I didn’t know whether I was sympathizing with her broken heart or apologizing for a family who had had theirs broken, too.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["family","life","life-lessons","love"],"id":100313,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"Heartache, guilt, loss, grief, these things, too, are monsters.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["grief","loss","love"],"id":114437,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"The hours were long, but the days were short, and as much as I willed it to never come, the end of summer arrived anyway.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["nostalgia","summer","summertime","time","young"],"id":139152,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"But if love can be funny and capricious, it can also be strong enough to seem like a sign of insanity.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["insanity","love"],"id":159137,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"Even knowing everything, I would have chosen the same.It's only in hindsight that we can point, as easily as finding a town on a map, to the moments that shaped us, - the moments when choices between yeses and noes determined the people we become.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["heartbreak","life","love"],"id":214030,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"},{"text":"The air was swollen with music, shouting, and something I could not quite place- a feeling of happiness, but happiness with an edge, a sense of joy that was all the more meaningful because it was so fleeting.","author":"Chelsey Philpot","tags":["feeling","fragility","happiness","moments","mood"],"id":269813,"author_id":"Chelsey+Philpot"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}