 | "Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up." ― Marge Kennedy |  |
- LORENA -
A fragile structure that keeps everything in place, making flaws permanent and notorious until you fix them.
| - DAPHNE -
remembering equals repetition.
the folded paper forms a smooth band around the wrist. expanding a little when needed, it will remember its old form and return back into its original shape
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| "When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?". ― Oliver Goldsmith | |
- LORENA -
You've gone too far too fast, making it almost impossible to erase the marks that were left behind.
| - DAPHNE -
sometimes an appearing solid foundation is nothing more than a structure with holes.
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| "People get into a heavy-duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things are going wrong, that means that they did something bad and they are being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need to open your heart. To the degree that you didn't understand in the past how to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart, you're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life, to give you everything you need to open further.". ― Pema Chödrön | |
- LORENA -
Like the oyster who choses to embrace what irritates her and turns it into beauty. Among all these perfect pearl shaped plastic beads, just the one who's open to transformation will discover a real pearl inside itself.
| - DAPHNE -
to open up, and see the shiny side of things.
the cuff is blackened on one side and polished on the other side. we can choose the side we prefer.
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| ""He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. 'Guilt' was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: 'celebration'”. ― Michael Pollan | |
- LORENA - Funny thing that when pleasure is involved many times so is guilt. A flexible bracelet made out of rubber, plain in one side, textured in the other; it is the wearer who chooses whether to be caressed by the material or not. | - DAPHNE - the heavy weight on one side and the airy feeling it might give on the other. the metal looks heavy and bold, but it is of no different weight than the other side of the bracelet
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| "Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.” ― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care | |
- LORENA - A long distance walked shows you how different things were back at home... and how hard you will try to find something that resembles to it wherever you are. | - DAPHNE - inside each one of us is a little magnet that draws you back to the place you came from. the wire is flexible, bendable, adaptable, stretchable but never brakes. |