Mathare Valley Quotes & Sayings

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. — T. Harv Eker

I think I could use a library, she answered finally. — Michele Jaffe

Nirvana occurs when you not only look forward to rapture, but also gaze back into the times of anguish and find in them the seeds of your joy. You may not have felt that happiness at the time, but in retrospect it is incontrovertible. — Andrew Solomon

It has been said that art is a tryst; for in the joy of it, maker and beholder meet. — Kojiro Tomita

You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic. — Debasish Mridha

I abhor running real risks, but it's not because I'm afraid of feeling too intensely. It's because they break my perfect focus on my sensations, and this disturbs and depersonalizes me.

I never go where there's risk. I fear the tedium of dangers. — Fernando Pessoa

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly ... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible. — Conor Oberst

Layering in different patterns will keep things from appearing too studied. — Nate Berkus

You don't need your eyes to love right? You just feel it inside you — R.J. Palacio

When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there. — Jacqueline Novogratz