7 Reasons You're Doing Okay

Featured artist Mercy Cáseres Simbaña of Ecuador's Museum of Modern Art wants you to know: Life - yur doin' it right.

1. How many yous? One!

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Moden Art, Ecuador

"When the day is dark, sad and desolate, don't hide: face it!!! For you are that light, happiness, and the company that the world needs to smile. Remember that each being on earth forms part of the whole. It would not be the same without you." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña

2. Inner light: you want it, you got it!

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

"In your face is reflected purity of heart. For this reason, protect it from bad feelings, cure it of painful wounds, and above all nourish it with love; the true strength of love is constructed in your interior to be transmitted with your light." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña

3. The world is yours to explore.

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

"We are transitory beings who arrive to this earth, a place full of contrast that illuminate our being, where we can traverse each road that we paint until we arrive at your final step, transition, between Earth and eternal light, where there may be deceptions and disappointments, that are difficult to overcome; but upon culminating we will find one reality, eternal peace, where one day we dream to be." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña

4. You are not alone.

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

"Between Heaven and Earth you feel alone, but there is a mantle around you that covers you in life, that inspires you day by day to rise, to smile, to be happy. Well, you are not alone. Love, passion, and blessings will be your guide." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña

5. You have the power to understand errrbody.

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

"Some customs which we were brought up with don't allow us to see afar. They limit us to what is 'normal' and 'correct' in the eyes of others. If we would only open our mind we would be free to understand completely our fellow man." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña

6. Everyone wants to disappear sometime.

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

"In life there are cold and dark days that at times we would like to disappear; yes, disappear from reality without thinking that before us we have a world full of colors, warmth, and life that surround us in days covered with hope and love." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña

7. Lots o' people doubt their sea of dreams.

Mercy Cáseres Simbaña - Museum of Modern Art, Ecuador

"At time we put up barriers when beginning to navigate in the sea of our dreams; however, the strength of our heart and the love of that being who has always believed in you are sufficient reason to triumph and continue the voyage of life toward success to soon return to the arms of the one who has always awaited you." - Mercy Cáseres Simbaña