When you make a beautiful thing, the depth of the person within becomes more vivid, lives more intensely for a moment.

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• When you make a beautiful thing, you feel happy for days; when you make something ugly, you may be depressed for days.claim0.847
• When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.844
• The making of life, the making of beauty, has a profound interaction with our happiness, affecting well-being for days.claim0.842
• It is only when you finally are personal, when you really put your humanness into the things you make, that you genuinely reach the wholeness.claim0.818
• "Like a person who, in being helpful, becomes more graceful, more beautiful as a person, the building volumes become beautiful as they help the land."quote0.818
  Alexander's reflection on the reciprocal beauty when building volumes serve the land.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.818
• While making, we carry a dimly held vision of emotional substance as we move forward through concrete acts.claim0.817
• The more it is alive, the more it seems faintly to shine.claim0.813
  Alexander's introspective observation about the qualitative appearance of life in things.