Lorraine Teixeira

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On a good day, this is the quintessential nature of design: to craft symbols, stories, and artifacts that ultimately shape hearts and minds — that shape us — for the better.

Brian Collins • Design is Enchantment

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Anne Bogart

Perhaps the most hopeful thing about being alive is that we are never finished and complete. Perhaps the most exasperating is that we are never entirely new.

Maria Popova • The 8 Inner Conflicts That Shape Who We Are

The first step of any meaningful pursuit is to severely underestimate its difficulty.

Sara Hooker • Tweet

Creativity

“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”

— Bob Dylan

Creativity

Winston Churchill, a man who was very prone to depression, said: “If you are going through hell, keep going.” This advice implies that everything, the good and the bad, is temporary, like life itself.

Francesc Miralles • Hope, the secret weapon of philosopher Byung-Chul Han

Life

I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.

What kills hope, according to Byung-Chul Han, is not despair; on the contrary, despair is its starting point, the beginning of the journey. As he explains in the prelude to the book, the opposite of hope is fear.

Francesc Miralles • Hope, the secret weapon of philosopher Byung-Chul Han

Life

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.

You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

Louise Erdrich • The Painted Drum