Comfortable Quote by Matt Smith

We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to…

— Alain de Botton

We create in people through our actions and example. In this way people around us become reflections of our own behavioral patterns and internal…

— Anonymous

Our preoccupation has always been to craft space in such a way as to induce social interactions that would in turn generate a sense…

— Larry Harvey

I find that through all my work, I really get to see and feel energy, health and vitality between people and their surroundings and…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is…

— David Abram

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to…

— David Hume

How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?

— Michael Arad

People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.

— Giambattista Vico

we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things.

— Sherry Turkle

“Three broad mechanisms—identity claims, feeling regulators, and behavioral residue—seemed to connect people to the spaces that surrounded them.”

— Sam Gosling

We have to shift our understanding of ourselves as separate individuals, each seeking our own welfare, to an understanding of how we fit into…

— Robert E. Ornstein

Rather than going after our walls and barriers with a sledgehammer, we pay attention to them. With gentleness and honesty, we move closer to…

— Pema Chodron