Japan

While the shoguns and wealthy nobility often favored gold and other ostentatious colors, the Zen monks and the tea masters preferred the more mundane colors such as browns, greens, and grays.

Freedom means you can choose the right or the wrong; if you are only free to choose the right, it is not freedom.

a sense of belonging is something that one can attain only by making an active commitment to the community of one’s own accord, and not simply by being here.