"To regret fully and wholeheartedly is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life. Fully experienced, regret turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibility lived better than the past." David Whyte, Poet and Philosopher
Legend has it that the Japanese shōgun, Ashikaga Yoshimasa sent a much loved, but damaged tea bowl back to China for repairs. It was returned with metal staples bolting the broken pieces together which did not please the shōgun. He urged local Japanese craftsmen to search for a more aesthetic manner in which to repair the bowl. They chose to use lacquer to bond the pieces together and then dusted the lacquer with gold powder. The cracks of the repair therefore became part of the object, and so the art of kintsugi was born.
"Adult development theories exist to give us a glimpse into what sense the world makes to us and to others in the present and to show us all a path to a different set of possibilities for the future." Jennifer Garvey Berger
"You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them."
Michael Jordan
"Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings." Marianne Williamson
"I love those who yearn for the impossible." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
"Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour."
William Cowper
"Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of."
Daniel Day-Lewis
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
T. S. Elliot