{"quotes":[{"text":"On Ryukyu islands, the expert Kara-te practitioners, used their skills to subdue, control and generally teach bullies A lesson, rather than severely injure or kill their attackers. They knew full well the consequences of their actions and the trail of blood and retribution that would ensue.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["attacker","avenge","blood","budoka","bully","bushido","chin-na","consequences-life-lessons","control","culture","expert","familiarity-and-attitude","families","folklore","grapplinf-tudi","history","injury","karate","kenpo","kill","killing","kin","martial-arts","master","opportunity","people","pkinawa","punching","quotes","reaction","ryukyu","seize","sensei","shinshii","shorinjiryu","teach-a-lesson","technique","torite","warrior"],"id":1327,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"},{"text":"Mindfulness \u0026 Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past \u0026 future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past \u0026 learn from it without agonising over it \u0026 trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation \u0026 experience. We can watch ourselves \u0026 avoid being caught up in over-reactions. 'I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within \u0026 all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body \u0026 the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within \u0026 from within to all around.","author":"Jay Woodman","tags":["awareness","breath","breathing-in-awareness","energy","experience","flow","life","life-philosophy","life","love","meditation","mental","mindfulness","moment","moment-of-being","moments","moments-of-life","moments","movement","non-attachment","observation","over-reaction","physical","reaction","slow-and-steady","slowing-down","stillness","stillness-of-mind","stillness-of-soul","stillness-of-the-mind"],"id":1489,"author_id":"Jay+Woodman"},{"text":"Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["adam-gottbetter","artistic","human-existence","interpretation","observation","observe","philosopher","philosophy-of-life","reaction","reactions","reality-of-life","stimulation","training"],"id":6988,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Our reactions to events is directly promotional to their importance in our life.","author":"Sukant Ratnakar","tags":["anxiety","attitude","change","reaction"],"id":7920,"author_id":"Sukant+Ratnakar"},{"text":"Lucien kept rubbing at his temples as he ate, unusually silent, and I hid my smile as I asked him, “And where were you last night?”Lucien’s metal eye narrowed on me. “I’ll have you know that while you two were dancing with the spirits, I was stuck on border patrol.” Tamlin gave a pointed cough, and Lucien added, “With some company.” He gave me a sly grin. “Rumor has it you two didn’t come back until after dawn.”I glanced at Tamlin, biting my lip. I’d practically floated into my bedroom that morning. But Tamlin’s gaze now roved my face as if searching for any tinge of regret, of fear. Ridiculous.“You bit my neck on Fire Night,” I said under my breath. “If I can face you after that, a few kisses are nothing.”He braced his forearms on the table as he leaned closer to me. “Nothing?” His eyes flicked to my lips. Lucien shifted in his seat, muttering to the Cauldron to spare him, but I ignored him.“Nothing,” I repeated a bit distantly, watching Tamlin’s mouth move, so keenly aware of every movement he made, resenting the table between us. I could almost feel the warmth of his breath.“Are you sure?” he murmured, intent and hungry enough that I was glad I was sitting. He could have had me right there, on top of that table. I wanted his broad hands running over my bare skin, wanted his teeth scraping against my neck, wanted his mouth all over me.“I’m trying to eat,” Lucien said.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["faerie","feyre","intimate","lucien","nothing","reaction","tamlin"],"id":11091,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"I always trust my gut reaction it's always right. ","author":"Kiana Tom","tags":["right","reaction","gut "],"id":12060,"author_id":"Kiana+Tom"},{"text":"The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.","author":"George Packer","tags":["9-11","9-11-10th-anniversary","american-history","command","control","progress","reaction","self-confidence","surprise","terror","victory","war"],"id":15481,"author_id":"George+Packer"},{"text":"Our reaction does not cancel the meaning of their existence because every creation serves a definite purpose.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["creation","existence","purpose","reaction"],"id":18213,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.","author":"Plato","tags":["seasons","direction","reaction "],"id":18878,"author_id":"Plato"},{"text":"She felt sad, but she hadn't cried all day. She thought that crying would actually be a good thing right now. It seemed normal to react. Whoever Martin had been, he had probably been a normal person. He was probably having a normal reaction right now, and she had caused it. She felt bad for confusing him. She thought it might be fair to cry for him. But it wasn’t until she thought of the mother cows in the pasture the day after the weaning, wandering around singly in the naked sunshine, still trying to call out in their hoarse, broken voices for the young ones that were still missing, that she was finally able to make herself cry—a little bit for all of the calves, but mostly for herself.","author":"Alexandra Kleeman","tags":["alexandra-kleeman","crying","intimations","reaction","sad"],"id":22949,"author_id":"Alexandra+Kleeman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":112,"pages":12,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}