{"quotes":[{"text":"Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.","author":"A.D. Posey","tags":["ad-posey","auspicious","beauty","inspirational","life","mystery","story","storytellers","storytelling","tapestry","tapestry-of-life","time","wonder","write","writers","writing","writing"],"id":30281,"author_id":"A.D.+Posey"},{"text":"The tapestry of my life was a ruin of unravelling threads. The brightest parts were a nonsensical madman's weaving. And now every day was a grey stitch, laid down with an outpatient's patience, one following the next following the next, a story in lines, like a railway track to nowhere, telling absolutely nothing.","author":"Alexis Hall","tags":["bipolar","depression","madman","madness","tapestry"],"id":95721,"author_id":"Alexis+Hall"},{"text":"I pray that I am sufficiently stirred by the rumor of great things to seek the God who created this single thread that I am, and to marvel at a vision magnificent enough to cause this God to weave from this single thread a tapestry most resplendent.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["confidence","god","marvel","marvelous","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-hatred","self-image","strength","tapestry","thread","vision","weave","wove"],"id":99400,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth.","author":"Dean Koontz","tags":["connection","evil","good","intrecate","life","odd-thomas","tapestry","weaving"],"id":196446,"author_id":"Dean+Koontz"},{"text":"Human freedom brings with it the burden of choice and of its consequences. As humankind is akin to claim for its own special privilege a certain unique destiny not afforded with equal measure to other organisms, so must it further—if paradoxically so—entertain the assumption that, in spite of this glorious determinism, there persists nonetheless a thread of free will—or, at the very least, some vague delusion thereof—woven seamlessly into the tapestry of collective experience. Of course, this conception that destiny is to be forged by one’s own hands more often engenders greater restriction than it does greater extension to the potential of human happiness.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["burden-of-choice","choice-and-attitude","choices-and-consequences","destiny","determinism","existentialism","free-will","happiness-choices","human-arrogance","human-freedom","human-potential","paradox","tapestry"],"id":204385,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.","author":"A.J. Darkholme","tags":["acceptance","alone","betrayal","blanket","careful","caution","choice","choices","circumstances","cold","doubt","emotions","fear","gasoline","insecurity","life","love","materials","mind","past","patches","patching","patience","perspective","preservation","protection","pursuits","relationships","repair","tapestry","time","trust","waiting","warmth","winter"],"id":261884,"author_id":"A.J.+Darkholme"},{"text":"On the great canvas of timeWe all create our own masterpiece.Choreographing our steps across minutes and hoursDancing over the daysPainting pictures over months andWriting our stories on the years.Singing our songs that echo across eons.We are all a thread in the talent tapestry.A snapshot in the cosmic, collective collage.","author":"Michele Jennae","tags":["acting","art","artists","canvas","canvas-of-life","canvas-of-time","collage","creating","creative","creativity","dancing","inspiration","singing","tapestry","writing"],"id":321430,"author_id":"Michele+Jennae"},{"text":"Now is the time to enliven, ennoble and enrich your life's tapestry.","author":"Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha","tags":["excellence","higherlife-coach","hinovelty","inspirational","leagacy","life-living","motivation","tapestry","wisdom"],"id":327342,"author_id":"Ifeanyi+Enoch+Onuoha"},{"text":"If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights that at the end of his time on earth, he could roll up and proudly claim as his own.","author":"Shilpa Agarwal","tags":["death","haunting-bombay","life-and-death","regret","shilpa-agarwal","tapestry"],"id":332748,"author_id":"Shilpa+Agarwal"},{"text":"Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.","author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","tags":["destiny","rilke","tapestry"],"id":376730,"author_id":"Rainer+Maria+Rilke"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}