{"quotes":[{"text":"Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.","author":"A.W. Tozer","tags":["confusion","disorder","god","mankind","world","wrong"],"id":49696,"author_id":"A.W.+Tozer"},{"text":"I shall act always so as to increase the total number of choices.","author":"Heinz von Foerster","tags":["choice","cognition","cybernetics","disorder"],"id":74755,"author_id":"Heinz+von+Foerster"},{"text":"If your financial life is not in order, every other area of your life will be in disorder.","author":"Bamigboye Olurotimi","tags":["area","choice","correction","decision","disorder","economic","financial","life","marital","order","physical","position","problem","solution","spiritual","time","trouble","value"],"id":89554,"author_id":"Bamigboye+Olurotimi"},{"text":"I ask: which of the two, civil or natural life, is more likely to become insufferable to those who live it? We see about us practically no people who do not complain about their existence; many even deprive themselves of it to the extent they are able, and the combination of divine and human laws is hardly enough to stop this disorder.","author":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","tags":["disorder","divine-law","human-laws","law","life","natural-order","politics"],"id":92382,"author_id":"Jean-Jacques+Rousseau"},{"text":"The more sensitive the lunatic, the less able is he to resist this prying interest of the normal human being. I felt that Renée's change of key - to myself, I compared Renée to a sweet melody, a little flat despite its laborious harmonies - was approaching.","author":"Colette","tags":["disorder","insanity","sensitivity","sidonie-gabrielle-colette"],"id":115321,"author_id":"Colette"},{"text":"I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.","author":"Gabriel García Márquez","tags":["disorder","obsession","order"],"id":138655,"author_id":"Gabriel+Garc%C3%ADa+M%C3%A1rquez"},{"text":"Lingering, bottled-up anger never reveals the 'true colors' of an individual. It, on the contrary, becomes all mixed up, rotten, confused, forms a highly combustible, chemical compound then explodes as something foreign, something very different than one's natural self.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["anger","anger-management","anxiety","bottled-up","brain","chemistry","cognition","cold-hearted","combustion","compassion","confusion","depression","disorder","emotional","flammable","foreign","forgiveness","goodness","grace","health","heart","heartache","heartbreak","hope","hostility","impatience","mental","mental-health","mental-illness","mercy","natural","pain","passive-aggressive","patience","peace","pity","psychology","rage","rotten","secrecy","suffering","sympathy","temper","true-colors","understanding","unnatural"],"id":164690,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Order and disorder', said the speaker, 'they each have their beauty.","author":"Orson Scott Card","tags":["beauty","disorder","order"],"id":200526,"author_id":"Orson+Scott+Card"},{"text":"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["brain","cognition","compassion","control","creative","creative-genius","creativity","disorder","driving","genius","illness","intelligence","knowledge","mental","mental-illness","pain","psychopath","schizophrenia","self-control","sorrow","sympathy","understanding"],"id":213774,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.","author":"James Baldwin","tags":["disorder","grief","punishment","room","soul"],"id":223929,"author_id":"James+Baldwin"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":38,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}