Kaloleni Housing project is my latest project addition. Take a look behance.net/gallery/24892896…

“Time will tell” is one of the realest quotes ever because time will eventually tell who put in the work, it will tell who was disciplined, it will tell who was playing the long game. Time will indeed tell.

Life is a balance: grief for what's lost, gratitude for what remains, and excitement for what's next.

If you must be a slave to anything, let it be beauty, and if you must be ruthless, then ensure you are so in the pursuit and protection of said beauty, rather than in the desecration of it. Orient yourself in this way, and you will live a life true to your deepest being.

One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.

Remember something brave you did when you were a child. Even when you were small, you were capable of great things. You showed character and strength. You did something impressive, despite being small, scared and vulnerable. Remember this, and let it inspire you now as an adult.

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

An old woman on the street grew tomatoes that were obscene. they were so red and so alive, it made you uncomfortable to look at them. everyone else had the same dirt, the same sun, the same rain, and their gardens were fine, but fine. hers were different, and nobody could explain it. she talked to the plants, which everyone laughed at, but she also did something else. she watched them before she did anything. she would stand there forever, then water or not water, prune or not prune. she let them tell her what they needed instead of deciding for them. and they grew the way children grow when you stop telling them what to be and just start paying attention to what they already are

If the world gets darker and dumber, and your response is to match it, to curse at it, to become obsessed with how right you are about how bad it is, you’ve already handed over the one thing it wanted from you. you don't protect your sanity by fighting the madness. you protect it by refusing to let it have your mornings, your sundays, the way you sit with a friend saying nothing. the world does not need your opinion about how lost it is. it knows. what it needs is somebody still saying grace before a meal while the kitchen burns

“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you.” - Dr. Carl Jung

Just because you can see how you are able to improve, doesn’t mean you aren’t pretty great already. It means you see how you could be even greater, but just haven’t managed to get there yet. The absence of perfection is not evidence of mediocrity. Do not sell yourself short.

— Marcus Aurelius

Seneca hits you with a brick. Pay attention to your life.

Comfort is a vice because it demands nothing from you, then takes EVERYTHING from you

- joy sullivan

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “Do not disturb yourself by imagining your whole life at once.”

Orwell. Truth.

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago: “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

until death, all defeat is psychological