"Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think."

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• we shape our buildings; and they shape us.quote0.793
  Attributed to Winston Churchill, cited as common sense about environment-behavior.
• The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.785
• When people think about what is needed to give them surroundings in which life can be lived, they CAN articulate itclaim0.783
  Optimistic statement about the latent capacity of ordinary people to express their deepest needs
• The morphology of a living world will, in the end, be that which can only be created by grace, radiant and comfortable, and beautifully ordinary.claim0.781
• The life which seems best in our world comes from efforts that are uncensored, natural and straightforward, from impulses close to our emotions and joy.claim0.778
  Alexander's opening assertion about the character of true modern life.
• A person will feel healed, made whole, during any process in which life and living structure are created in the world.claim0.778
• Each person is nourished, made more whole, by making something which has life.claim0.778
• Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.776
  Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.