“(…) my story bleeds through from my cover into the real world, a message from a parallel universe revealed through graphic design and visua...

" there’s a particular kind of disappointment when you begin to admire a bouquet or a blossom at a distance and find out closer up that...

"There is a connection between the brain and the hand that supports an embodied cognition, a knowing. Handicrafts in particular, which ...

"The most beautiful thing of all... is whatever you love best." Irene Vallejo (2022). Papyrus: the invention of books in the ancie...

"Observing something beautiful" is "an occasion for unselfing" and it "may well hold the key to our collective surv...

"You are beautiful not because you are better than others, but because there is only you who can smile like that." Haemin Sunim (2...

" As we notice more and more in the present moment, we come to a deeper realization that a silent observer is within us. In the primord...

"Long distance dispersal may be rare, but in a world where enough attempts occur, only one attempt needs to succeed. What is remarkable...

"Craft makes us human, and in doing so, it can provide deep satisfactions that are hard to replicate in other (dare I say) less   hands...

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"[A]ll this was an ongoing labor of love. The sustainability of nature (...) never just falls into place; it must be brought out throug...

"Don't let the beauty of life escape you." Let Nature be " t he temple that is. Marvel at the fact that any of this exist...

"Make what you can of what you have been given. Live what can be lived. That's what excellence is." Ryan Holiday (2019) Stilln...

  "(...) what was becoming clear to me was the extent to which humans, in their wish to escape loneliness, made maneuvers that were ver...

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“(…) she no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfilment as...

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"(...) humans who build their success solely on the oppression of others may one day find their own feathered nests collapsing. We...

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