{"quotes":[{"text":"Feeling compassion toward a dangerous person will not lead you to submit to them or put yourself at risk or condone their actions. What it does simply, is relieve your anxiety – which immediately makes you stronger and more resilient.","author":"Laurie Perez","tags":["anxiety","compassion","difficult-people","resilience"],"id":1270,"author_id":"Laurie+Perez"},{"text":"There are only two kinds of people who can drain your energy: those you love, and those you fear. In both instances it is you who let them in. They did not force their way into your aura, or pry their way into your reality experience.","author":"Anthon St. Maarten","tags":["abusive-partners","aura","bad-friends","bad-relationships","blaming-others","create-reality","demanding-people","difficult-people","drain-energy","draining","empath","energy-field","energy-healing","energy-thieves","family-members","fear","love-hurts","narcissists","negative-nellies","negative-people","psychic-protection","psychic-vampires","reality-experience","self-awareness","self-pity","selfish-people","steal-energy","stealing-your-thunder","toxic-people","toxic-relationships"],"id":39601,"author_id":"Anthon+St.+Maarten"},{"text":"The difficult people who we encounter can be our greatest teachers.","author":"Eileen Anglin","tags":["difficult-people","spiritual-wisdom","wisdom"],"id":107818,"author_id":"Eileen+Anglin"},{"text":"Manage your relationships. Great relationships may not be profitable, but bad ones always result in losses.","author":"Tarun Sharma","tags":["bad-relationships","difficult-people","great-relationships","losses","people-skills","profits","relationships"],"id":150548,"author_id":"Tarun+Sharma"},{"text":"Lady Vennaway is a horrible, horrible woman, is she not, Cookie?'Cook hesitated. 'Everyone has their own story, even those we find the hardest. Best to accept things the way they are and count your blessings.","author":"Tracy Rees","tags":["acceptance","difficult-people"],"id":190040,"author_id":"Tracy+Rees"},{"text":"Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.","author":"Christian Baloga","tags":["bestseller","blockbuster","complaining","criticisms","critics","difficult-people","fools","inspirational","motivation","rise-above","self-motivation","success","top-dog","triumph","trolling","trolls","whiny","winner"],"id":238379,"author_id":"Christian+Baloga"},{"text":"In order to master compassion, you have to spend time getting to know monsters. When you can do that you will see that there are no monsters, only people that acted like monsters because no one gave them the time or compassion to hear their story.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activist","caring","communication","compassion","difficult-people","homeless","hospitals","love","medical-missions","mental-disorders","mentally-ill","monsters","patients","seeing","service","stories","time"],"id":299147,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Always remember that you can explain things for people, but you can't comphrend for them.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["comphrend","difficult-people","humor","nasty-people","stay-positive","wit"],"id":299960,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Relationships with negative people are simply tedious encounters with porcupines. You don’t have the remote knowledge how to be close to them without quills being shot in your direction.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["attitude","deceitful-people","difficult-people","games","liars","manipulation","negative-people","negativity","staying-positive","stayingpositiveu-com"],"id":342805,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"The difficulties in life are vital for our personal growth and well-being.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["difficult","difficult-decisions","difficult-emotions","difficult-life","difficult-people","difficult-reading","difficult-times","difficulties","difficulties-of-life","difficulty","health","health-and-fitness","healthy-lifestyle","healthy-living","life","life-lessons","personal","personal-adventure","personal-development","personal-growth","well-being","wellness"],"id":347401,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}