{"quotes":[{"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":"Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will.","author":"Amit Kalantri","tags":["amit-kalantri","amit-kalantri","creative","creativity","follow","following","gut-feeling","gut-feelings","human","humans","innovative","inspiration","inspirational","inspirational","instinct","inventive","mind","minds","motivation","motivational","motivational","original","originality","pattern","philosophy","rule","rules","will","willpower","wisdom","wisdom"],"id":28429,"author_id":"Amit+Kalantri"},{"text":"To pattern government after a kingdom is not to reflect the heavenly vision of God’s kingdom.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["god","government","kingdom","pattern","reflect"],"id":42090,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but that are useful no longer.","author":"Roger Scruton","tags":["ancestor","ancestors","belief","below","civilization","emotion","pattern","patterns","threaten","threatened","use","useful"],"id":55634,"author_id":"Roger+Scruton"},{"text":"The Infinity sign goes round and round without an end, and true love bears the same pattern.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["circle","friendship","infinite-love","love","love-circle","pattern","sign","true-love"],"id":60467,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in southern France without a clock for one hundred and eleven days, monitored by scientists who wished to study the human body's natural rhythms in the absence of time cues. For a while, she settled into a pattern of thirty hours awake and twenty hours asleep. She described herself as being 'psychologically completely out of phase, where I no longer know what my values are or what is my purpose in life.'When she returned to society, her husband later noted, she seemed to have an emptiness inside her that she was unable to fully express. 'While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge,' she said. 'You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying.' A little more than a year later, Le Guen swallowed an overdose of barbiturates and lay down in her car in Paris, a suicide at age thirty-three.","author":"Michael Finkel","tags":["alone","asleep","awake","barbiturates","cave","cave-explorer","clock","emptiness","experiment","explorer","express","extreme","human-body","judge","lie","live","lying","monitored","overdose","pattern","phase","purpose","return","rhythms","science","scientists","settled","society","solitude","study","suicide","tolerate","underground","values","volunteered"],"id":83221,"author_id":"Michael+Finkel"},{"text":"A totally new kind of education is needed in the world. The person who is born to be a poet is proving himself stupid in mathematics and the person who could have been a great mathematician is just cramming history and feeling lost. Everything is topsy-turvy because education is not according to your nature: it does not pay any respect to the individual. It forces everybody into a certain pattern.","author":"Osho","tags":["education","individual","pattern"],"id":114394,"author_id":"Osho"},{"text":"I am just like you,Destined to play my part.And leave,In the nature of my departure at least,Some kind of sweet message behindIn the fathomless pattern I make.","author":"Scott Hastie","tags":["behind","destined","fathomless","leave","make","message","nature","pattern","play","poetry","poetry","spiritual","spirituality"],"id":138527,"author_id":"Scott+Hastie"},{"text":"Men wiser and more learned than I have discerned in history a plot, a rhythm, a predetermined pattern. These harmonies are concealed from me. I can see only one emergency following upon another as wave follows upon wave, only one great fact with respect to which, since it is unique, there can be no generalizations; only one safe rule for the historian: that he should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.","author":"H.A.L. Fisher","tags":["contingency","destiny","europe","fate","harmony","history","luck","mankind","pattern","unforeseen"],"id":149072,"author_id":"H.A.L.+Fisher"},{"text":"I wonder at the starry pattern in the skyAre they little pieces of moon which want to fly..?","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["fly","little","moon","night","night-sky","pattern","patterns","pieces","poetry","rhyming","rhyming-verse","star","starry","starry-night","stars","want","wonder"],"id":159773,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}