{"quotes":[{"text":"Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham.","author":"Paul Di Filippo","tags":["life","king","traditions "],"id":4518,"author_id":"Paul+Di+Filippo"},{"text":"The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.","author":"Andrew Pettegree","tags":["change","communication","persuasion","relevance","traditions"],"id":11906,"author_id":"Andrew+Pettegree"},{"text":"MOTHER TIME: Life goes by so very fast, my dears, and taking the time to reflect, even once a year, slows things down. We zoom past so many seconds, minutes, hours, killing them with the frantic way we live that it's important we take at least this one collective sigh and stop, take stock, and acknowledge our place in time before diving back into the melee. Midnight on New Year's Eve is a unique kind of magic where, just for a moment, the past and the future exist at once in the present. Whether we're aware of it or not, as we countdown together to it, we're sharing the burden of our history and committing to the promise of tomorrow.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["being-busy","busy","goals","holiday","life","magic","midnight","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","slowing-down","taking-stock","the-past","the-present","time","tomorrow","tradition","traditions","yesterday"],"id":21103,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"The believer is not a slave to fa.","author":"Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips","tags":["custom","customs","fashion","tradition","traditions"],"id":26595,"author_id":"Abu+Ameenah+Bilal+Philips"},{"text":"We live among ruins in a World in which ‘god is dead’ as Nietzsche stated. The ideals of today are comfort, expediency, surface knowledge, disregard for one’s ancestral heritage and traditions, catering to the lowest standards of taste and intelligence, apotheosis of the pathetic, hoarding of material objects and possessions, disrespect for all that is inherently higher and better — in other wordsa complete inversion of true values and ideals, the raising of the victory flag of ignorance and the banner of degeneracy. In such a time, social decadence is so widespread that it appears as a natural component of all political institutions. The crises that dominate the daily lives of our societies are part of a secret occult war to remove the support of spiritual and traditional values in order to turn man into a passive instrument of dark powers.The common ground of both Capitalism and Socialism is a materialistic view of life and being. Materialism in its war with the Spirit has taken on many forms; some have promoted its goals with great subtlety, whilst others have done so with an alarming lack of subtlety, but all have added, in greater or lesser measure, to the growing misery of Mankind. The forms which have done the most damage in our time may be enumerated as: Freemasonry, Liberalism, Nihilism, Capitalism, Socialism, Marxism, Imperialism, Anarchism, Modernism and the New Age.","author":"Seyyed Hossein Nasr","tags":["heritage","materialism-versus-spiritualism","traditions","values"],"id":26868,"author_id":"Seyyed+Hossein+Nasr"},{"text":"Oh, as Dean says, nobody is free - never, except just for a few brief moments now and then, when the flash comes, or when as on my haystack night, the soul slips over into eternity for a little space. All the rest of our years we are slaves to something - traditions - conventions - ambitions - relations.","author":"L.M. Montgomery","tags":["ambitions","conventions","filial-love","free-will","freedom","freewill","relations","slavery","traditions"],"id":27408,"author_id":"L.M.+Montgomery"},{"text":"If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.","author":"Max McKeown","tags":["change","creativity","culture","innovation","revolution","traditional","traditions"],"id":31867,"author_id":"Max+McKeown"},{"text":"MURRY: It's not that, it's just… I don't really get it. I usually find myself staring at the midnight deadline filled with regrets both for opportunities and loved ones missed. It's another day closer to the end. The last thing I feel like doing is counting down to some wild celebration. It just seems so sad to say goodbye to a year and know that it’s gone forever and you can’t go back to it. Not to relive, not to correct.NOEL: I've never thought about it that way.MURRY: There's something so final about it. It's the period at the end of the sentence.NOEL: The New Year's resolution.","author":"Hillary DePiano","tags":["goals","holiday","new-year","new-year-s","new-year-s-eve","new-year-s-resolutions","new-years","new-years-eve","resolutions","tradition","traditions"],"id":37947,"author_id":"Hillary+DePiano"},{"text":"Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.","author":"Constantin Stanislavski","tags":["traditions","you","create "],"id":41170,"author_id":"Constantin+Stanislavski"},{"text":"Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?","author":"Courtney Kirchoff","tags":["culture","touching","traditions"],"id":45652,"author_id":"Courtney+Kirchoff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}