{"author":"Erik Pevernagie","author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie","total_quotes":214,"quotes":[{"text":"We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like bulls-in-a-china-shop, create one heck of a mess in their living environment and bring about shocking disturbing dissensions, ever since their inner construction clashes with our emotional architecture. (“Disruption”).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["act-in-line","architecture","astounded","behavior","bulls-in-a-china-shop","clash-with","create","disruption","dissension","disturbing","emotional","emotional-outlaws","inner-construction","living-environment","one-heck-of-a-mess","proceed","shocking","standards"],"id":1816,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"People live on the flow of the daily reality and they surge on the waves of hazy expectations. They can experience pleasant junctures and try to catch and enjoy each special moment that is offered to them. Until life takes them by surprise.","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["expectation","life","moment","reality","surprise"],"id":9079,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"We want life to make sense. If we don’t find meaning and orientation, we are bound to fabulate a living and invent an inspiring life story. When we write out a chosen script, we’ll have to make time to hunker down into attuning it to the hitches of the road map, time and again, with fractious patience. ( 'Everybody his story' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["attune","bound","chosen","everybody","fabulate","find","fractious","hitches","hunker-down","inspiring","invent","life","lifestory","living","make-sense","make-time","meaning","orientation","patience","road-map","script","time-and-again","write"],"id":10374,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. ('Fish for silence.').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["be-aware","become","connectedness","daily","demonstrate","differ-from","discordant","endeavor","episode","find-out","fish","literacy","live","neighbors","range","reading","reality","shades","silence","social","surroundings","take","unrecognizable","vibe","where-is-waldo","who-is-who"],"id":15400,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"When life hasn’t got a swing anymore, people may give in to obsessive oniomaniac compulsions, in as much as they are going out of their way to construct a flamboyant life style and change their identity from “don’t-need” to “must-have” consumers, so as to satisfy their gripping buying desire. ('Buying now. Dying later').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["buying-desire","compulsions","consumers","don-t-need","flamboyant","gripping","identity","life","life-style","must-have-customer","obsessive","oniomania","satisfy","swing"],"id":17679,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"Recognizing a problem may help us to understand and solve a problem. Rather than lying down and selling our sound judgment short, let us appeal to the opulent granary of our memory and explore the green pastures lingering in our mind. ('Prêt-à-penser').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["appeal-to","explore","granary","green-pastures","lingering","lying-down","memory","mind","opulent","problem","prêt-à-penser","recognize","sell-short","solve-a-problem","sound-judgment","understand"],"id":20869,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an 'empty box'. Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ( 'Everybody his story' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["act","box","construe","empty","frame","inventiveness","life","out-of-the-box-thinking","people","remain","sidelines","stay","story","tale","turn-into","wishful-thinking"],"id":21288,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. ('When is Art?').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["art","biased","breathing","come-to-life","concept","consent-to","dispel","disturbing","feel","forsaken","fragments","ignored","in-the-end","nasty","perceptions","philosophy","piece-of-art","raise-questions","recognize","reconcile","remember","sometimes","start","talk-to"],"id":24141,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"When the brain becomes too tired, the mind stops decrypting the perceptions in our mental world and surrenders willingly to the unguarded moments of life.For some time, the safeguards of our thinking pattern weaken and discontinue the decoding of the chips of daily reality.The mind picks the instants which are above suspicion, pure and innocent. ('Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["brain","chip","daily","decoding","decrypting","discontinue","innocent","instant","life","mental","mind","moment","pattern","perceptions","pick","pure","reality","safeguards","surrender","suspicion","thinking","time","tired","unguarded","weaken","willingly","world"],"id":26041,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"By assembling in our mind all the consequential facts we have lived through and by reviewing, appraising or sometimes idealizing the numerous key points of the past, authenticity may gradually mutate and actuality decay at last. At that point in time we are to experience a maimed factuality. ('Labyrinth of the mind').","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["actuality","appraise","assemble","at-last","authenticity","consequential","decay","experience","facts","factuality","gradually","idealize","key-point","labyrinth","live-through","maimed","mind","mutate","numerous","past","review","sometimes"],"id":30647,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":214,"pages":22,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}