{"quotes":[{"text":"The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.","author":"Nancy Sleeth","tags":["amish","change","sanity","simplicity","stability","tradition"],"id":23234,"author_id":"Nancy+Sleeth"},{"text":"Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.","author":"Jon Kabat-Zinn","tags":["calming","calming-the-mind","calming-the-storm-in-mind","calmness","concentrate","concentration","concentration-of-power","mastery-of-oneself","mindfulness","mindfulness-buddhism","mindfulness-practice","on-life","to-define-my-life","to-live-by","self-awareness","self-empowerment","stability"],"id":25900,"author_id":"Jon+Kabat-Zinn"},{"text":"When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.","author":"O. S. Hickman","tags":["adolescence","adulthood","advice","fast","growing-up","intellectualism","key-to-a-happy-life","lesson","life","philosophy","stability","wisdom","young-adult"],"id":36686,"author_id":"O.+S.+Hickman"},{"text":"It is hard to argue that housing is not a fundamental human need. Decent, affordable housing should be a basic right for everybody in this country. The reason is simple: without stable shelter, everything else falls apart.","author":"Matthew Desmond","tags":["affordable-housing","bare-necessity","housing","human-rights","poverty","stability"],"id":40030,"author_id":"Matthew+Desmond"},{"text":"If you can endure anything, you can become anything.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["achieve","believe","better","boldness","endurance","faith","future","greatness","i-am-strong","overcome","risk","stability","strength","strong","struggle","struggling","success"],"id":45756,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.","author":"Mary E. DeMuth","tags":["control","controlling","stability","structure"],"id":51654,"author_id":"Mary+E.+DeMuth"},{"text":"As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.","author":"Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove","tags":["culture","mobile","peace","stability","stay"],"id":61647,"author_id":"Jonathan+Wilson-Hartgrove"},{"text":"But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.","author":"Omar Bongo","tags":["peace","africa","stability "],"id":68810,"author_id":"Omar+Bongo"},{"text":"And once again, work is providing us with a comforting sense of normalcy-living and working inside of coding's predictably segmented time/space. Simply grinding away at something makes life feel stable, even though the external particulars of life (like our pay checks, our office, and so forth) are, at best, random.","author":"Douglas Coupland","tags":["control","normalcy","predictability","stability"],"id":71986,"author_id":"Douglas+Coupland"},{"text":"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.","author":"J. William Fulbright","tags":["law","behavior","stability "],"id":75554,"author_id":"J.+William+Fulbright"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":68,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}