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Beautiful Untranslatable Words Inside Nostalgic Necklaces

London-based boutique Minimalist Things is responsible for producing delicate jewelry inspired by life’s undetected treasures. Its French owner Raphaëlle prides herself in constructing a high-quality product, which contains a deep personal meeting. She spends hours on each piece to assure it its unique and meaningful. The set of untranslatable words from different languages explore moments and profound feelings, which the English language has no word for. Check out the words below.

CAFUNÉ (Brazilian Portuguese) - tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.

WABI-SABI (Japanese) - a way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life.

HYGGELIG (Danish) - good friends, cold beer & a warm fire.

KOMOREBI (Japanese) - when sunlight filters through the leaves of trees.

TOSKA (Russian) - a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a vague restlessness.

DUENDE (Spanish) - mysterious power that a work of art has to deeply move a person.

Find the entire collection in her Etsy shop!

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I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being A Wallflower (via wordsnquotes)

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by Gemma Correll

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Burst from Iceland’s Strokkur Geyser

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Miniature Memorabilia Inspired by Hogwarts & The World of Harry Potter

Charming UK-based shop Petite Uniques creates exquisite miniature toys, furniture and memorabilia with a Victorian, bibliophile and wizardry inspired sensibility.

The Harry Potter collection includes a set of ingenious and miniature newspapers fit for a dollhouse. Scaled at 1 inch each newspaper contains authentic headlines from the Daily Prophet and Wizardly World News, which read with infamous and prolific titles, including the “Escape from Azkaban” and “The Boy Who Lies.”

Each miniature newspaper is crammed with ample news and tiny details and has been beautifully aged to resemble a vintage aesthetic. 

Along with Harry Potter memorabilia, you will find other miniature book classics and dollhouse furniture. Find her work in her Etsy shop.

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If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

John Steinbeck on falling in love (via wordsthat-speak)

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Falling in love with people, with beautiful words, running headlong into oblivion, using smiles as armor, caring too much and not saying it out loud, being awestruck, yet terrified of the vastness of the universe.

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Be so crazy in love with yourself that they feel privileged to have your attention. Love yourself the way you want to be loved.

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My aesthetic.

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Walt Whitman’s advice for students

In 1888, a student newspaper published a short interview with Walt Whitman in which he dished out advice to young students.

He told them that “Practice is the main thing at all times,” but to also learn all the bits and pieces of a trade:

Whack away at everything pertaining to literary life—mechanical part as well as the rest. Learn to set type, learn to work at the ‘case’, learn to be a practical printer, and whatever you do learn condensation. 

And, hilariously, the poet told them not to bother writing poetry:

To young literateurs I want to give three bits of advice: First, don’t write poetry; second ditto; third ditto. You may be surprised to hear me say so, but there is no particular need of poetic expression. We are utilitarian, and the current cannot be stopped.

And to carry pen and paper everywhere:

It is a good plan for every young man or woman having literary aspirations to carry a pencil and a piece of paper and constantly jot down striking events in daily life. They thus acquire a vast fund of information. One of the best things you know is habit. Again, the best of reading is not so much in the information it conveys as the thoughts it suggests. Remember this above all. There is no royal road to learning.

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