The IsLoved Journal

Creating the Future

A designer’s road from 0 to 1 — building isloved.shop, one day at a time.

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Day 84Rest & Recovery
I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.— Vincent van Gogh
Feb 8, 2025 · 2 min read
Day 51Rest & Recovery
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.— Audre Lorde
Dec 16, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 43Reflection
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.— Lao Tzu
Dec 11, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 42The Shop
Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life.— Anne Lamott
Dec 10, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 35Getting Found
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.— Annie Dillard
Dec 4, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 34Reflection
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.— Confucius
Dec 3, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 33Reflection
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.— Richard Bach
Dec 2, 2024 · 1 min read
Nov 27Reflection
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.— William Bruce Cameron
Nov 27, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 31Reflection
Creativity takes courage.— Henri Matisse
Nov 26, 2024 · 4 min read
Day 30Reflection
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.— Helen Keller
Nov 22, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 29Getting Found
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.— Albert Einstein
Nov 21, 2024 · 4 min read
Day 28Reflection
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.— Lewis Carroll
Nov 20, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 27Reflection
I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.— Henry David Thoreau
Nov 19, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 26Reflection
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.— Samuel Beckett
Nov 19, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 25Reflection
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.— Ovid
Nov 15, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 24Reflection
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.— Langston Hughes
Nov 14, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 23Reflection
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.— Aristotle
Nov 13, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 22The Brand
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.— Ursula K. Le Guin
Nov 12, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 21Getting Found
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.— George Bernard Shaw
Nov 11, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 20Reflection
You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.— Friedrich Nietzsche
Nov 8, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 19Reflection
To create one's own world takes courage.— Georgia O'Keeffe
Nov 7, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 18Reflection
No one has ever become poor by giving.— Anne Frank
Nov 6, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 17Reflection
To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.— Audrey Hepburn
Nov 5, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 16Reflection
Not all those who wander are lost.— J.R.R. Tolkien
Nov 5, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 15Reflection
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage.— Rainer Maria Rilke
Nov 1, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 14Getting Found
Hell is other people.— Jean-Paul Sartre
Oct 31, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 13Reflection
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oct 30, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 12The Brand
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.— Voltaire
Oct 29, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 11Reflection
Man is a tool-using animal; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.— Thomas Carlyle
Oct 28, 2024 · 4 min read
Day 10Habits & Consistency
The quieter you become, the more you can hear.— Ram Dass
Oct 25, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 9Reflection
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.— Albert Camus
Oct 24, 2024 · 4 min read
Day 8Starting Out
Rest and be thankful.— William Wordsworth
Oct 23, 2024 · 3 min read
Day 7Reflection
What stands in the way becomes the way.— Marcus Aurelius
Oct 22, 2024 · 5 min read
Day 6Reflection
We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience.— John Dewey
Oct 21, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 5Getting Found
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.— Pablo Picasso
Oct 18, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 4Reflection
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.— Zeno of Citium
Oct 17, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 3Starting Out
There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.— Leonard Cohen
Oct 16, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 2The Brand
What is essential is invisible to the eye.— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Oct 15, 2024 · 2 min read
Day 1Grit
The beginning is the most important part of the work.— Plato
Oct 14, 2024 · 4 min read