Interesting, "common" + "beautiful" is a thoughtful combination, and definitely works well for this. Thanks for explaining!
Label-wise, maybe special text treatment (e.g. size, font, opacity, or even using a photo of handwritten words) or icons (e.g. disk for save/export, boat or walking figure or bird with wings spread for wander) could help? Just a thought.
Come to think, varying the text treatment (bold, size, italics, color, font) for the words could be interesting too -- more like using actual clippings. Though honestly I kinda like it as-is; it feels more about the words themselves this way.