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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” —Teilhard de Chagrin

“Your aesthetics get better as you make mistakes”

**Steve Jobs · May, 1984**

“I want everything quiet and simple. For me: walking barefoot, sitting still, reading, listening to stories, and now and then telling some myself. Eating fruit, drinking milk, longing to create, but with patience and many insights.”


— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Lou Salomé witten c. March 1904

If you see beauty in something, don't wait for others to agree.

“Young designers, you need battle wounds. You need to fail. You need scars. Be curious and don’t ask for permission.” - Joel Beukelman

“When you love someone, you can’t just tell them,” she said. “What do you mean?” her friend asked.

“If you say ‘I love you’, how are they supposed to understand? It’s like trying to comprehend the universe.

You have to show them quietly. A coffee. An extra day off. Room to stand under the same umbrella.

Take the universe apart and give them the stars.”