-Simone Weil "Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer."

-Oscar Wilde "I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful."

-R Buckminster Fuller "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

-Henry Miller "One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things."



" -Goethe "Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

-Gaston Bachelard "I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."

-Kurt Vonnegut "We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."

-William Gibson "The future is already here––it's just not evenly distributed"

-Anthony Douglas Williams "Happiness is not about more––it's about less"

-George Carlin "We've multiplied our possessions but reduced our values. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life."

-Tom Waits "We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness."

-Edgar Degas "Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."



cooking materials and utensils, the sink, and the eating-room, are at such distances apart, that half the time and strength is employed in walking back and forth to collect and return the articles used. " -Catharine Beecher "In most large houses, the table furniture, thecooking materials and utensils, the sink, and the eating-room, are at such distances apart, that half the time and strength is employed in walking back and forth to collect and return the articles used. "