You cannot change people.

You must accept them as they are or leave them alone.

And you are the first in line of those called people.

– Osasu Oviawe

The greatest privilege is stability.

Your life can change in an instant in ways you cannot even fathom.

While we look forward to an upswing, it is more probable that it happens in a downswing. Either way, having neither an upswing nor a downswing is the real privilege.

Building buffers that maintain stability is maybe the most important job you have, as a leader and as an individual.

– Osasu Oviawe

To live, breath must be let in to lift the chest and let out for the chest to rest.

This is the one workout that trumps all workouts.

Lift and rest.

– Osasu Oviawe

You know better.

You do.

Act better.

You can.

End of story.

– Osasu Oviawe

So much pain can be averted if you share all with the one who loves you.

So much pain is needlessly borne out of shame that would never be.

Speak to the one who loves you.

– Osasu Oviawe

Those who are used know they are being used but submit anyway.

The courage that takes is role-modeled by the cross.

They look upon users and see people who are slaves to ignorance.

In the end, they continue to extend grace, with these words: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

They extend grace until breath can no longer lift their chests.

The used are the true.

– Osasu Oviawe

There are two important songs in a Nigerian wedding reception: the entrance song and the first dance song.

The entrance song signals their connection to the hip song of the moment.

The first dance song signals their story until that moment and a hope for the future.

The first dance song holds all the magic.

What’s your first dance song?

– Osasu Oviawe

An atelier is always messy and is nothing compared to the beauty it births.

The mess is evidence of process, not failure.

The artist understands the mess is the path.

Beautiful destinations remain unexplored by those who get turned off by the path.

– Osasu Oviawe

The kindest people I know are the strongest people I know.

– Osasu Oviawe

Human stupidity is only rivalled by human creativity but its stupidity endures.

Which is why the only way to maintain sanity is to find humor in any and everything.

– Osasu Oviawe