Komorebi is proof that the light penetrates through minute spaces to reach darkness.

"No matter how much I try your memories are like the komorebi, they keep piercing my armour."

"The komorebi is a proof that the light can penetrates through the tiny spaces to reach the darkest place"

Crippled by fear. Belittled by the darkness. And hurt by the confinement. Fragile soul. Porcelain turned skin. Boisterous heart. Broken Unwavered. With hoppiercing. Just like komorebi

• Generally: "I humbly receive.”
• Traditionally: Used when taking something from someone with higher authority or position than oneself
• In a food setting: "Let's eat," or "Thanks for the food.”

1. Meaning: the effect that the sunlight makes when it streams through tree’s leaves
2. How the word makes you feel: This word makes me feel closer to nature and the different effects that nature produces. This word gives us a way to explain certain things that are created through nature.
3. Quote: “It’s been years that I’ve tried to paint it on a canvas. Somehow, the hue never comes perfectly. Somehow, the paintbrush can’t reach my memories and replicate the picture”
4. Use it in a sentence (in Japanese):　こもれびはうつくしいです。Komorebi is beautiful.
5. Picture that captures the essence of the word:

1. Meaning: “I humbly receive”
2. How the word makes you feel: This word makes me feel happy because it signifies that a meal is about to begin. Food is very important in people’s lives and we saying something like this gives the food even more meaning to it.
3. Quote: “We give thanks to all the ingredients in the world”
4. Use it in a sentence (in Japanese):　このたべものをいただきます。I humbly receive this food.
5. Picture that captures the essence of the word:

• It makes me feel normal
• Quote/ sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees.

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
- Pablo Picasso

"avoid spending time doing things we don't enjoy "

“Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years - Japanese proverb quoted in Ikigai The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Francesc Miralles” 
― Japanese Proverb

• いき: life
• がい: value or worth
• 生きがい: finding your purpose in life

"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life.
The whole aim and end of human existence."
- Aristotle

"‘Natsukashii’ is the word you say when you hear a song you haven’t heard for years that you used to dance around your bedroom to as a child…"
-Anonymous

“To Taoism that which is absolutely still or absolutely perfect is absolutely dead, for without the possibility of growth and change there can be no Tao. In reality there is nothing in the universe which is completely perfect or completely still; it is only in the minds of men that such concepts exist.” 
 ―  Alan Watts 

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

“Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:” 
- J.A. Park

"There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” - Leonard Cohen

• "She indulged herself in nostalgic memories."

• Everything makes me feel nostalgic.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” - Steve Jobs

何で 余分な もの 買ったの？ 勿体無いよ！（なんで よぶんな もの かったの？ もったいないよ！）
-Keiko

Shouganai: If something can't be helped, why worry about it - it is fate.
-Anoymous

"青春は若い奴らには勿体無い。
Youth is wasted on the young. - George Bernard Shaw

“Life just happens the way it’s supposed to happen. It delivers you to where it delivers you.” - David O Russell