{"quotes":[{"text":"You lift your head, you’re on your way, but really just to be walking, to be out of doors. That’s it, that’s all, and you’re there. Outdoors is our element: the exact sensation of living there.","author":"Frédéric Gros","tags":["adventure","art","awe","beauty","discovery","earth","explore","freedom","fresh-air","get-outside","hikes","hiking","joy","movement","nature","our-planet","outdoors","outdoors-church","outside","peace","philosophy","pilgrim","pilgrimage","poetry","serenity","visual-poetry","walking","walks","wonder"],"id":1460,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Gros"},{"text":"How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.","author":"Salman Rushdie","tags":["civil-society","courage","freedom","serenity","stoicism","terrorism"],"id":5664,"author_id":"Salman+Rushdie"},{"text":"Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more people are entertained by their beauty, the more beautiful they think they must be. This is very unfortunate and I would like young girls to know that their beauty is a crown; not a clown. And crowns are best worn with elegance and serenity.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["advice-for-young-girls","beauty","beauty-is-a-crown","beauty-of-a-girl","beauty-of-a-woman","clown","crown","elegance","serenity","the-quality-of-beauty","what-is-beauty","widom-for-women","wisdom","women-s","young-girls","young-women"],"id":8819,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.","author":"Marie Sabillo","tags":["heart","listening","listening-to-your-heart","peacefulness","serenity"],"id":13524,"author_id":"Marie+Sabillo"},{"text":"If you put a spoonful of saltin a cup of waterit tastes very salty.If you put a spoonful of saltin a lake of fresh waterthe taste is still pure and clear.Peace comes when our hearts areopen like the sky,vast as the ocean.","author":"Jack Kornfield","tags":["buddhism","peace","peace-of-mind","purity","sanctity-of-mind","serenity"],"id":13865,"author_id":"Jack+Kornfield"},{"text":"There's this small flicker in time when you're looking down the barrel of a gun and instead of your life flashing before your eyes, it’s all the moments you missed out on.","author":"Melyssa Winchester","tags":["life-and-death","reflection","serenity"],"id":17144,"author_id":"Melyssa+Winchester"},{"text":"Close your eyes to feel deeply the tranquility and serenity of the mind.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["close-your-eyes","debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","serenity","serenity-of-the-mind","tranquility"],"id":17983,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"He could feel himself gliding down like the sail of a weightless craft, forever plunging into the great beyond below where mermaids sing and summon their lovers home, further down into the depths of some complacent serenity, further down where thoughts float away and never return and the lightness is so grand that there is no other worldly place imaginable, for there is no world left to beconsidered. There is only the soul, free from the prison of the body, and it is released to travelanother millennium through time, carrying with it the progress and industry gathered from themind previously occupied.","author":"Matthew Chase Stroud","tags":["freedom","hardship","life-and-living","serenity","young-minds"],"id":20408,"author_id":"Matthew+Chase+Stroud"},{"text":"Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.","author":"Henry Miller","tags":["big-sur","california","ecology","environment","good-neighbors","nature","peace","serenity"],"id":26576,"author_id":"Henry+Miller"},{"text":"This time, there’s no question of freeing yourself from artifice to taste simple joys. Instead there is the promise of meeting a freedom head-on as an outer limit of the self and of the human, an internal overflowing of a rebellious Nature that goes beyond you. Walking can provoke these excesses: surfeits of fatigue that make the mind wander, abundances of beauty that turn the soul over, excesses of drunkenness on the peaks, the high passes (where the body explodes). Walking ends by awakening this rebellious, archaic part of us: our appetites become rough and uncompromising, our impulses inspired. Because walking puts us on the vertical axis of life: swept along by the torrent that rushes just beneath us. What I mean is that by walking you are not going to meet yourself. By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history. Being someone is all very well for smart parties where everyone is telling their story, it’s all very well for psychologists’ consulting rooms. But isn’t being someone also a social obligation which trails in its wake – for one has to be faithful to the self-portrait – a stupid and burdensome fiction? The freedom in walking lies in not being anyone; for the walking body has no history, it is just an eddy in the stream of immemorial life.","author":"Frédéric Gros","tags":["adventure","art","awe","beauty","discovery","earth","explore","freedom","fresh-air","get-outside","hikes","hiking","joy","movement","nature","our-planet","outdoors","outdoors-church","outside","peace","philosophy","pilgrim","pilgrimage","poetry","serenity","visual-poetry","walking","walks","wonder"],"id":28968,"author_id":"Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Gros"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":166,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}