#om

I thought of becoming an interior designer, but I decided to just reorient my furniture so people will think I’m gay. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#homosexuality #humor #design

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#authenticity #leadership #life-design #mentor #reflection

Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice." "I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour ↗

— J.D. Robb

#death

Governments are deemed to succeed or fail by how well they make money go round, regardless of whether it serves any useful purpose. They regard it as a sacred duty to encourage the country’s most revolting spectacle: the annual feeding frenzy in which shoppers queue all night, then stampede into the shops, elbow, trample and sometimes fight to be the first to carry off some designer junk which will go into landfill before the sales next year. The madder the orgy, the greater the triumph of economic management. ↗

— George Monbiot

#economics #environment #government #shopping #design

Your value lies not in status or title, but in the roots of your character and depth of your compassion. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#life-design #purpose #truth #design

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#life-design #life-perspective #thriving #wisdom #design

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. ↗

— Donald A. Norman

#communication

Part calico choir girl...........and part satin dance hall doll, with amber eyes and a dash of hellcat red in her hair --- the kind of woman that a man wants in his bedroom when he's sick.............and in his bed when he's not. ↗

— Linda Bloodworth-Thomason

#designing-women #mary-jo-shively #tv-show #design

In a time so filled with methods and techniques designed to change people, to influence their behavior, and to make them do new things and think new thoughts, we have lost the simple but difficult gift of being present to each other. (p. 11-12) ↗

— Henri J. M. Nouwen Donald P. McNeill Douglas A. Morrison

#presence #change

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple. ↗

— Richard Diaz

#design #engineered #simple #design