Lorraine Teixeira

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m . of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

We forget all too soon

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

A finite game, where the goal is to win, can easily become a serious, grave affair, devoid of fun and levity. An infinite game, where the goal is nothing more—or less—than to continue to play, lends itself to sincerity. Confusing an infinite game for a finite game can be a subtle source of suffering in life.

Michael Ascroft • Be sincere, Not Serious

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

It is said that we each are waves, momentarily cresting out of It All. How precious, then, to witness waves holding waves in loving regard as they form and return (form and return, form and return). The process of reabsorption back into the mystery from which we emerged can, naturally, be an exquisitely intense process. Decades may have been spent