{"quotes":[{"text":"At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.","author":"Martin Luther King","tags":["non-violence","center "],"id":8769,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King"},{"text":"I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention,my focus, myself.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["attention","blurs","center","focus","judge","judgement","life","people","secret","self"],"id":17873,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"Murder is a dream because lack is the center of both.","author":"Kathy Acker","tags":["center","dream","lack","murder"],"id":21055,"author_id":"Kathy+Acker"},{"text":"We have to be in the center of action in order not to end up on the sidelines.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["action","center","end","order","sidelines"],"id":39408,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Ever since I was young I enjoyed solving puzzles and having the pleasure to see the bigger picture afterwards. But even after all that, I found that life could be the most challenging puzzle we have to face. It's one of those things that even if you have all the pieces and could see the whole picture, it still takes time and patience to solve it. At times, we feel more at ease not knowing the whole picture, not knowing the whole level of difficulty or number of pieces that we're missing, but just building up one piece at a time. The problem with this approach is that the only clues that we have for matching two pieces are the shape and a small glimpse of the image. We so often find comfort in building up the corners and the borders but very rarely do we adventure in the middle of the puzzle. We'd rather work little by little holding on to our safe border and only move towards the center when the pieces are still in touch with our borders or roots. On the other hand, you could be one of those people that just jumps in the middle and builds up on every piece you have in order to get small portions of the truth of the bigger picture every now and then. Not having your borders or corners in place might mean that you don't need to know your limits in order to realize that the puzzle will one day come to an end. Nevertheless, every piece is equally important and it gets handed to you at a time where you have at least some matching piece. That doesn't mean you should only focus on one point or piece and limit your possible connections. Spread out and you will find even more connections. The truth of the puzzle information comes in different shapes and colors but in the end it's all connected. Information might be divided, spread out in different areas, different people, different experiences. What's important to remember is that every piece is meant for you. You might throw it on the side now and use it later, but it will forever remain a part of your bigger picture. Work on your puzzle, with patience and care in moving forward and with a hopeful spirit that it will all work out in the end for your highest good!","author":"Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache","tags":["bigger","borders","building","center","challenge","challenging","comfort","corners","difficulty","enjoy","glimpse","good","highest","level","life","matching","missing","moving","number","patience","picture","pieces","pleasure","problem","puzzle","puzzles","roots","shape","solve","solving","spirit","touch","young"],"id":51299,"author_id":"Virgil+Kalyana+Mittata+Iordache"},{"text":"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["about","advice","allegation","allegations","behind","busy","camera","car","center","choose","continue","court","day","dense","densely","documentation","driving","entrance","excercise","give","given","hazard","independent","inform","interrupts","legal","lights","mall","many","nearest","obtain","outside","people","place","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-state","policeman","policemen","populated","population","public","pull","pulling","record","recording","requested","right","rude","rudely","shopping","silence","slowly","start","stop","supermarket","ticket","time","unexpected","very","video","while","witnesses"],"id":59315,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.","author":"Richie Norton","tags":["act","authentic","authenticity","center","know-who-you-are","knowing","knowing-oneself","life","living-life"],"id":76697,"author_id":"Richie+Norton"},{"text":"We need not avoid our active lives, but simply bring to them a new vision and shift of gravity. For in the center we are rooted in god's love. In such a place there is no need for striving and impatience and dashing about seeking approval.","author":"Sue Monk Kidd","tags":["center","god"],"id":79500,"author_id":"Sue+Monk+Kidd"},{"text":"They think I’m not entirely ‘grounded in reality’, they say. They want me to go to some live-in nerdy activity ranch thing for troubled Canadian youth, that one out in Ontario where you come back programmed like some robot, dressed in a tye-dyed shirt and eating tuna sandwiches,” Mandy explained, a horrified look on her face. “You’re eighteen, not twelve! Would they really send you to some rat’s nest like that?” Wendy questioned in mock horror. “Aw hell no, if you get sent there, they’ll make you hold hands and sing songs about caring! And they’ll force you to recycle everything in blue canisters, and to discuss your emotions in front of groups of bratty little dopes!”“Dear god, they’ll have geeky youth wiener roasts at night, and no locks on the doors!” Mandy added, eyes wide. “…It’ll be the day pigs fly, my parents have the camp brochure on the fridge but they’ll never go through with sending me there. They always forget.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["bad","canada","center","coming-of-age","family","friendship","humor","locks","nostalgia","nova-scotia","ontario","pressure","preteen","rebel","reprogramming","self-help","sleepaway","straight-camp","summer-camp","teen","troubled","tuna-sandwich","wiener-roast"],"id":101238,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.","author":"Anaximander","tags":["astronomy","center","earth","science","sphere"],"id":115204,"author_id":"Anaximander"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}