“Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.” MayOur LivesHappeningsStructureComplexesPatternsAttractionCosmic Author:Amalia Kahana-Carmon
“Values heavily influence the practice of health habits. For example, exercise for women may be considered desirable in one culture but undesirable in another.(Donovan, Jessor, Costa, 1991) As a result, patterns among women will differe greatly between two cultures.” MayTwoValuesCultureResultsPracticeInfluenceExampleHabitExercisePatternsDesirableUndesirableTwo Cultures Author:Shelley E. Taylor
“Our politics and science have never mastered the fact that people need more than to understand their obligation to one another and to the earth; they need also the feeling of such obligation, and the feeling can come only within the patterns of familiarity. A nation of urban nomads, such as we have become, may simply be unable to be enough disturbed by its destruction of the ecological health of the land, because the people's dependence on the land, though it has been expounded to them over and over again in general terms, is not immediate to their feelings.” PeopleNeedsMayHas BeensEnoughFactsFeelingsEarthNationsTermLandDestructionPatternsObligationUrbanDependenceFamiliarityDisturbedEcologicalNomad Author:Wendell Berry
“Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.” WorldMayLinesOffersShapesMarkPatternsCreatorSurfacePainterRhythmProportionRevelationsTextureSignatures Author:John Paul Caponigro
“Provocative. Striking. Rachel Resnick is a virtuoso on the page. Her fearless examination of the desperate thirst to find love is guaranteed to break your heart. Yet her cool-eyed analysis of the roots of this addiction inspires hope that through committed self-understanding, maybe each of us can change toxic patterns, whatever they may be.” HeartMaySelfUnderstandingLove IsBreakInspirePagesRootsAddictionPatternsCommittedFearlessAnalysisDesperateToxicThirstExaminationFinding LoveProvocativeBreak Your HeartSelf UnderstandingVirtuoso Author:Samantha Dunn
“He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.” GivingShouldWellsMayFallPracticeWiseExampleWingsAddPatternsAidsFleshCommandSoarDismay Book:The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose