Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

- Rumi

Enforced needs

It’s about goods and services being forced upon people. We are being trained to consume goods and services we don’t need in order to fuel the process of production and economic escalation. To ensure such growth we need to monetize more and more aspects of our lives.

- Alexey Kharkov

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them fell.

- Maya Angelou

Passion

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”

- Unknown

Artistic Theory in Italy (Renaissance)

Sharing what I found recognizable, thoughtful and enlightening while studying.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Vasari

Avarice

The cake is big enough for everyone, but some can’t fight their avarice.

- Yumna Olivia Sheikh

Some of my favorite aphorisms

I’d rather be hated for who I am
than loved for who I am not.
- Kurt Cobain

Be as you appear,
appear as you are.
- Rumi

Small minds discuss people,
average minds discuss events,
great minds discuss ideas.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Memento mori (Remember your mortality).
- Latin phrase

Cogito ergo sum (I think, therefore I am).
- Descartes

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge.
And all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds.
And those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere.
And those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

- Unkown

Men like what they see and women like what they hear, that’s why men believe the lie of a woman’s make-up and women believe the lies of men.
- Oscar Wilde