{"quotes":[{"text":"It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["extinction","farming","human-development","production","thought","war"],"id":2530,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself……….","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtood","childhood","experience-plus","human-development","joumana-ezz","noha-abdel-hameed"],"id":12971,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"Nothing matches a Sailor's kiss coming back home where he belongs.","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtodd","experience-plus","human-development","kiss","noha-sameh","sailor","sameh-elsayed"],"id":15330,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"Wisdom got sound. It is called silence.","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtood","experience-plus","human-development","joumana-ezz","noha-abdel-hameed","silence","silent","sound","voice","wisdom"],"id":16210,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"When she tells you her problems she is not moaning, she trusts you.","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtood","experience-plus","human-development","joumana-ezz","moaning","noha-abdel-hameed","organizational-development","problems","sameh-elsayed","trust"],"id":20273,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"I believe that there are parts to human nature that cannot be reached by either legislation or education, but require the power of God to deal with.","author":"Stephen R. Covey","tags":["human-development","psychology"],"id":33847,"author_id":"Stephen+R.+Covey"},{"text":"With approximately 50% of the USA population on prescription drugs and 10% on anti-depressants, it is clear that things are going seriously wrong with human health in the modern world.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["depressant","depression","depression","health","human","human-development","humanity","humanity-and-society","modern","modern-life","modern-society","modern-times","modern-world","population","prescription","prescription-drugs","prescription-medicines","usa","world"],"id":46709,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"For those who were born lovers, falling in love is not neither an option nor a decision. It is a matter of existence.","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtodd","experience-plus","human-development","joumana-ezz","love","noha-abdel-hameed","passion","sameh-elsayed"],"id":51517,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"Think before you speak…… think before you don’t.","author":"Sameh Elsayed","tags":["adam-elsayedtood","experience-plus","human-development","joumana-ezz","noha-abdel-hameed","think"],"id":52060,"author_id":"Sameh+Elsayed"},{"text":"My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension between the range of opposites in our lives and society widens dramatically and often painfully as we evolve; the second, that the better informed and more intelligent we are, the more humble we have to become about our ability to live meaningful lives and to change anything, even ourselves; and consequently, thirdly, that the cost of gaining the simplicity the other side of complexity can rise very steeply if we do not align ourselves and our lives well.","author":"Dr Robin Lincoln Wood","tags":["adaptation","anthropacy","autognosis","autonomies","autopolesis","biosphere","british-","complex","difficult","earths-future","economist","evolution","finding-happiness","finding-well-being","future-humanity","good-life","good-life-examples","heaven","hell","holarchy","homo-sapiens","human-condition","human-development","humanity","imperfect-adaptation","inspirational","integral-philosopher","ken-wilber","men-empowerment","opposites-attract","paradise","post-modern-philosopher","self-creation","self-help","self-knowledge","species","thriving","unhappiness","well-being","women-empowerment"],"id":60842,"author_id":"Dr+Robin+Lincoln+Wood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}