Speed Demon | 2014 Ducati 899 Panigale

New to our Lust List is the 2014 Ducati 899 Panigale Superbike. Light and agile with 148HP, the need for speed might be calling to you day and night.

Social Find Friday | King's Row

King's Row in Pasadena, California possesses an impressive outdoor situation equipped with misters for dry, hot days and seating that keeps the conversation flowing. As Old Pasadena's first gastropub, it has a hefty reputation for its craft beers and scratch kitchen.

 

While the bluesy-rock reggae sounds of My Reggae Band (yep, that's their actual name) flowed through the air, we nibbled on House Cut Fries and Brussel Sprouts mixed with smoked beets, thyme and shallots. We washed the yummy bites down with mojitos served in mason jars, a detail which was downright charming. 

Fashion Show: Ximena Valero Summer 2015 Collection Preview 2015

Ximena Valero Summer 2014 Fashion Show.

Vanichi Magazine loves Ximena Valero. The award-winning Los Angeles based designer is throwing a fashion show to preview her Summer 2015 collection. See the information below.

What:
Ximena Valero Summer 2015 Preview

When: 

May 30TH 8PM-1AM

Where:
H STUDIO DOWNTOWN

#700 W OLYMPIC BLVD

LOS ANGELES CA, 90015

To RSVP, please email steve@hstudio.com. For press inquires and for additional information on the event, please call or text the following numbers:

Call: 213.745.8495
Text:323.481.8608

You must be on guest list to attend.

Editor's Pick | Mr Hare Arno

Simplicity goes a long way. Mr. Hare presents the Arno is an array of colors that play on ideas of neutral while never compromising an impeccable fashion sense. This can easily make it the ultimate go-to shoe for any man who must endure the summer heat while being distinctively suave. WARNING: Style like this might make your surroundings even hotter. 

Pictured Above: The Arno in Aqua, Mint, Whiskey, Royal Blue and Grey

Editor's Pick | Zoya Rue Nail Color

Where nail art and bold color dominated the red carpets of summer 2013, this year is seeing more subdued tones on celebrities from Gisele Bundchen to Amy Adams to Lady Gaga. Our pick for a sexy summer neutral tone is Zoya's Professional Lacquer in Rue. Aside from providing long lasting color, it's also Big 5 Free; so, it contains no formaldehyde, toluene, formaldehyde resin, dibutyl phthalate or camphor.

30 Inspiring Quotes from Dr. Maya Angelou: Author And Poet Passes At 86

By Jordan Swain

Early this morning, a beautiful spirit passed. Dr. Maya Angelou, one of our greatest literary and artistic minds, has forever departed this planet but her creative genius lives on. As civil rights activist and US Poet Laureate, Angelou left volumes of her work, her vision and her unique expression for posterity. Maya's wise words are not only printed onto the pages of millions of books sold internationally, but they are also delicately painted into memories held preciously in our minds. Her artistic endeavors in literature and poetry have garnered Dr. Angelou a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her 1971 volume of poetry, “Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie”. She was also nominated for a Tony Award with her role in the 1973 play "Look Away," and three Grammy awards for her spoken-word albums. Additionally, Maya Angelou has been honored by various organizations and businesses around the world. She holds over 25 honorary degrees due to her 'phenomenal' legacy.

Below are 30 quotes of inspiration from Dr. Maya Angelou.

“If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.” Maya Angelou

“I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.” Maya Angelou

“What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.” Maya Angelou

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya Angelou

“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” Maya Angelou

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.” Maya Angelou

“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.” Maya Angelou

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” -- Maya Angelou

“You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'” Maya Angelou

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.” Angelou

“My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.” Maya Angelou

“While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.” Maya Angelou

“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” Maya Angelou

“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.” Maya Angelou

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” Maya Angelou

“All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou

“I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.” Maya Angelou

“We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” Maya Angelou

“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” Maya Angelou

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” Maya Angelou

“I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.” Maya Angelou

“You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.” Maya Angelou

“One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.” Maya Angelou

“A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.” Maya Angelou

LeVar Burton Launches Kickstarter for Reading Rainbow

If you just got knocked over by someone racing to their tablet, it's nothing personal. They probably just want to donate to LeVar Burton's new Kickstarter campaign launched only this morning. The star is striving to raise $1 Million to relaunch Reading Rainbow, a show that has been missed by Gen Y and Millenial alike since it went off the air in 2009.

This time around, Burton wants to also make Reading Rainbow available for free to classrooms that need it. As an exchange for Kickstarter donations, the Star Trek icon is offering benefactors nearly irresistible perks. You can hang with him at a Star Trek convention, FandomFest or Wizard World. You can enjoy a private picnic with him and your friends or share a private dinner. Perhaps, the creme de la creme at a $10,000 donation level is a dinner with Mr. Burton where you and a friend get to wear the "Geordi Visor" he made famous on the intergalactic show.

Burton is leveraging his ultra-popular social media status - he's still the the only person Shit My Dad Says follows on Twitter - to spread the word. It seems to be working. In just seven hours, Burton has managed to raise over $570,000 with over 12,000 backers and he still has 34 days to go on the campaign trail.

12 Vegetarian Recipes for Memorial Day

We recently discovered the food blog of Jerry James Stone aka Cooking Stoned. Regardless of whether the name makes you raise an eyebrow, his recipes will certainly excite your appetite.

He recently blogged about 12 Vegetarian Recipes for Memorial Day that are making us crazy. From sweet and spicy Grilled Padron Peppers to Vodka Deviled Eggs to Broccoli and Gouda Stuffed Cornbread to Sweet and Salty Celery Popsicles, Stone's version of vegetarian is highly inventive and compromises nothing.

Read through the recipes and you might get inspired to add a dish or 12 to all of your forthcoming summer BBQs.

6 Ingredients For Glowing Skin

Beauty begins on the inside and what you eat, or don't eat, will quickly show in your skin. As the largest organ your body has, your skin crazes hydration and vitamins that help fight stress and aging.

That's why we love this article about juicing from Leena Oijala of Ecosalon.com. Oijala breaks down the benefits of Carrots, Parsley, Beets, Cucumber, Ginger and Apples and provides an easy recipe for skin that glows from the inside out.

You can also try our Quick Cucumber Pineapple Ginger Agua Fresca Recipe below:

Ingredients
1 whole cucumber peeled and diced
1/2 cup of diced pineapple
1/4 pineapple juice
1/2 cup water
1 teaspoon fresh chopped ginger
1/2 cup of ice

Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until watery. If you desire more protein, add a teaspoon of Chia seeds for extra Omega 3.

Top 101 Inspirational Quotes

100 quotes that inspire

Inspirational quotes and motivational quotes have the power to get us through a bad week, and can even give us the courage to pursue our life’s dreams. In my book,4 Keys to Happiness and Fulfillment at Work, I share surprising research into the true triggers of workplace motivation. So in the spirit of self motivation, here are 100 inspirational quotes.

1. Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being. –Kevin Kruse

2. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

3. Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. –Albert Einstein

4. Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. –Robert Frost

5. I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse. –Florence Nightingale

6. You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. –Wayne Gretzky

7. I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. –Michael Jordan

8. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. –Amelia Earhart

9. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. –Babe Ruth

10. Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

11. We must balance conspicuous consumption with conscious capitalism. –Kevin Kruse

12. Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans. –John Lennon


13. We become what we think about. –Earl Nightingale

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover. –Mark Twain

15.Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. –Charles Swindoll

16. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. –Alice Walker

17. The mind is everything. What you think you become. –Buddha

18. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. –Chinese Proverb

19. An unexamined life is not worth living. –Socrates

20. Eighty percent of success is showing up. –Woody Allen

21. Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. –Steve Jobs

22. Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is. –Vince Lombardi

23. I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

24. Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. –Pablo Picasso

25. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

26. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. –Maya Angelou

27. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. –Jim Rohn


28. Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

29. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. –Mark Twain

30. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. The best revenge is massive success. –Frank Sinatra

32. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. –Zig Ziglar
33. Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. –Anais Nin

34. If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. –Vincent Van Gogh
35. There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle

36. Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you. –Jesus

37. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

39. When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me. –Erma Bombeck

40. Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. –Booker T. Washington

41. Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart. – Ancient Indian Proverb

42. Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

43. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. –George Addair

44. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato

45. Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress. –Maimonides

46. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. –Arthur Ashe

47. When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life. –John Lennon

48. Fall seven times and stand up eight. –Japanese Proverb

49. When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. –Helen Keller

50. Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see. –Confucius

51. How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. –Anne Frank

52. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

53. Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. –Maya Angelou

54. Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions. –Dalai Lama

55. If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on. –Sheryl Sandberg

56. First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. –Aristotle

57. If the wind will not serve, take to the oars. –Latin Proverb

58. You can’t fall if you don’t climb. But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground. –Unknown

59. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained. –Marie Curie

60. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. –Les Brown

61. Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. –Joshua J. Marine

62. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. –Booker T. Washington

63. I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. –Leonardo da Vinci

64. Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless. –Jamie Paolinetti

65. You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame. –Erica Jong

66. What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. –Bob Dylan

67. I didn’t fail the test. I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. –Benjamin Franklin

68. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. –Bill Cosby

69. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. – Albert Einstein

70. The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it. –Chinese Proverb

71. There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

72. It is never too late to be what you might have been. –George Eliot

73. You become what you believe. –Oprah Winfrey



74. I would rather die of passion than of boredom. –Vincent van Gogh

75. A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. –Unknown

76. It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. –Ann Landers

77. If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren

78. Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray


79. The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at. –Jesse Owens

80. Education costs money. But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

81. I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear. –Rosa Parks

82. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. –Confucius

83. If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough. –Oprah Winfrey

84. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. –Dalai Lama

85. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. –Maya Angelou

86. Dream big and dare to fail. –Norman Vaughan

87. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. –Martin Luther King Jr.

88. Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. –Teddy Roosevelt

89. If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten. –Tony Robbins

90. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. –Gloria Steinem


91. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. –Mae Jemison

92. You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try. –Beverly Sills

93. Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. –Eleanor Roosevelt

94. Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. –Grandma Moses

95. The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

96. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. –Henry Ford

97. It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. –Abraham Lincoln

98. Change your thoughts and you change your world. –Norman Vincent Peale

99. Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. –Benjamin Franklin

100. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!” –Audrey Hepburn

101. The only way to do great work is to love what you do. –Steve Jobs

102. If you can dream it, you can achieve it. –Zig Ziglar