• cafuné

v. Brazilian Portuguese – “The act of tenderly running one’s fingers through someone’s hair.”

• kintsukuroi

n. "to repair with gold"; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken.

• serendipity

n. the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way: "a fortunate stroke of serendipity."

• sonder

n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

• sophrosyne

n. a healthy state of mind, characterized by self-control, moderation, and a deep awareness of one's true self, and resulting in true happiness.

• wabi-sabi

n. Japanese – A way of living that focuses on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the natural cycle of growth and decay.

• wanderlust

n. a strong, innate desire to rove or travel about