{"quotes":[{"text":"To be able to listen -- really, wholly passively, self-effacingly listen -- without presupposing, classifying, improving, controverting, evaluating, approving or disapproving, without dueling with what is being said, without rehearsing the rebuttal in advance, without free-associating to portions of what is being said so that succeeding portions are not heard at all -- such listening is rare.","author":"Abraham H. Maslow","tags":["advance","approving","being","classifying","controverting","disapproving","dueling","evaluating","free-associating","heard","improving","listen","passively","portions","presupposing","rare","really","rebuttal","rehearsing","said","self-effacingly","succeeding","wholly"],"id":7440,"author_id":"Abraham+H.+Maslow"},{"text":"Pay to go inside Neruda's homeA body lies there with no dome.But right there in the front hallLean a fairy against the icy wall.Oh Endless enigmas had the bard!Nice and large and calm backyardEnds In the middle of a rare roomRare portrait of revelishing gloom.Up climbing at the weird snail stairDoes make you grasp for some air.And there's a room with bric-a-brac:Old and precious books all in a pack.Dare saying what I liked most of all?Enjoyed seeing visitors having a ball!","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["acrosti","ancient","art","art-collection","art-collector","bard","guests","house","la-chascona","love","lyrics","museum","neruda","odd","ode","old","old-piece","pablo-neruda","pablo-neruda-ode","pablo-neruda-poetry-populism","people","poem","poet","poetry","preciosity","precious","precious-things","rare","rarity","rhymed","rhymes","tour","tourism","visit","visiting","visitors","walls","women"],"id":20536,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"She would only let you know her, little by little ~ never giving too much away but willing to share the small parts that make up her life, she falls slowly like that ~ love isn't a maybe thing in her eyes \u0026 her heart is the prize, she knows her worth and she will withstand the wait.","author":"Nikki Rowe","tags":["be-free","beautiful","free-spirit","freedom","love","love","love-story","patience-and-timing","rare","self-worth","true-love","untameable","wild-and-free","wild-love","woman","women","women","worth","worthiness"],"id":39865,"author_id":"Nikki+Rowe"},{"text":"To lie for me is something rare, some people think that I lie because they don't understand me quite well. But sometimes like today I just predict an answer a part of the answer in math the other can be found with more thinking.","author":"Deyth Banger","tags":["lie","people","predict","rare","thinking"],"id":46824,"author_id":"Deyth+Banger"},{"text":"For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.","author":"Ang Lee","tags":["canvas","rare","personal "],"id":56498,"author_id":"Ang+Lee"},{"text":"Today is an ephemeral ghost...A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years. For the rest of the time it does not 'exist.'In mundane terms, it marks a 'leap' in time, when the calendar is adjusted to make up for extra seconds accumulated over the preceding three years due to the rotation of the earth. A day of temporal tune up!But this day holds another secret—it contains one of those truly rare moments of delightful transience and light uncertainty that only exist on the razor edge of things, along a buzzing plane of quantum probability...A day of unlocked potential.Will you or won't you? Should you or shouldn't.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["calendar","chance","days","ephemeral","february-29","fortune","ghost","ghost-day","leap","leap-day","leap-year","moment","moments","months","possibility","probability","quantum","qunatum-day","rare","second","seconds","temporal","temporary","time","unusual","years"],"id":58815,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"...Unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent...","author":"Maquita Donyel Irvin","tags":["art","artist","be-present","beautiful-mind","beautiful-women","black-women","black-women-writers","black-writers","bloom","christian-writers","coincidence","complete","faith","faith-in-god","flower","growth","hope","imperfect","imperfections","jesus","love","love-poems","love","love-stories","lovely","no-coincidences","perfectly-imperfect","poems","purposeful-living","rare","relationship","relationships","single","single-woman","stories-of-a-polished-pistil","trust","wanderer","wanderlust","whole","women-writers"],"id":65057,"author_id":"Maquita+Donyel+Irvin"},{"text":"We were born in the '70s, back when twins were rare, a bit magical: cousins of the unicorn, siblings of the elves.","author":"Gillian Flynn","tags":["70s","elves","family","love","magic","old-fashioned","rare","siblings","superstition","the-70s","the-seventies","twins","unicorn","unicorns"],"id":65732,"author_id":"Gillian+Flynn"},{"text":"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!","author":"Homer","tags":["wisdom","youth","rare "],"id":70031,"author_id":"Homer"},{"text":"The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...","author":"Jasper Fforde","tags":["avarice","detestable","dilutes","evil","expert","good","loathsome","money","rare","wickedness"],"id":75262,"author_id":"Jasper+Fforde"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":71,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}