Participate Relentlessly

"You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestation of your own blessings."

Elizabeth Gilbert

Choice

"A man's weakness and strength, purity and impurity, are his own, and not another man's; they are brought about by himself, and not by another; and they can only be altered by himself, never by another."

-James Allen, As a Man Thinketh

Critique

"Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots".
-Frank Howard Clark

Story

"All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story or tell a story about them."

-Karen Blixen

Walk

“Life is not easy for any of us. but what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. we must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

– Marie Curie

Free

"Live out of your imagination, not your history."

-Stephen R. Covey

Design

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

-Jean Cocteau

"Design is not making beauty. Beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."

-Louis Kahn

"It is better to fail in originality that to succeed in imitation."

-Benjamin Franklin

"The details are not details. They make the design."

-Charles Eames

Movement

"It's better to light the candle than curse the darkness."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

12

“We started by talking to the beggars and we said at what point did you start to beg?”- Muhammad Yunnis.