We love ourselves a good quote and so we asked our community to share their favorite quotes and affirmations with us and we’ve highlighted some below.

Khajuaan Walker | Visionary

“Your word is the power that you have to create” -Miguel Ruiz. So often, we forget the immense responsibility and accountability we have to ourselves and others to speak words of life. This philosophy has profoundly shaped my own life, igniting within me a sense of purpose and a belief that I have something valuable to offer the world. Read more>>

derrick brown | Comedian, Poet and Book Publisher

“In some other world gigantic seashells hold humans up to their ears, but all they hear are the echoes of machines.” _Poet Jefrrey McDaniel. It means to me to be present and remember what a strange miracle it is to be human. To embrace the beauty, failures and strangeness of being human. To not just focus on tasks and upgrades like a machine. Read more>>

Comika Hartford | Screenwriter

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it” Ansel Adams

I love this sentiment as it reveals that perspective and imagination are everything. It’s why AI shouldn’t be creating human stories, it’s a fine tool but it has no creative soul. Read more>>

Sara Annapolen | Founder and Designer of Sara Joy

Yes! I often remind myself to “trust the process”- it helps me let go of control a little. It helps when I hear a No instead of a Yes, and it helps me get through some of the uncomfortable entrepreneurship journey. Some of the tough stuff is part of the process and part of the learning. Trusting that the universe has my back reminds me to smile and know it is all working out how it’s supposed to. Read more>>

Brendan Lott | Artist

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that
one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.- Oscar Wilde
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