“Winners and losers aren’t born, they are the products of how they think.”
“If you’re bored with life, if you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don’t have enough goals.”
“Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
“Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.” – Lou Holtz
Wins, Losses, and Lessons is an inspirational biography by legendary college sports coach and motivational speaker Lou Holtz.
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131 Delicious Recipes for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss, Reversing Disease, and Lifelong Health
My favorite cookbook with gorgeous photos of delicious tasting recipes (my favorite being the ice “nice” cream — with the added benefit that the recipes are health-promoting to the point of reversing severe heart disease, diabetes (type-II), and many other ailments common to those who follow modern diets.
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“Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.”
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”
“The institutions, conventions, customs and laws that make up the complex structure of a society are the work of a hundred centuries and a billion minds; and one mind must not expect to comprehend them in one lifetime, much less in twenty years.”
“Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.” – Will Durant
Will Durant (1885-1981), with his wife Ariel Durant, spent over half a century writing his acclaimed eleven-volume, The Story of Civilization.
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“There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.” ― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan
The story of Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up, and his adventures in Neverland. A classic of children’s literature written for adults.
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“The basic purpose of art is not to teach, but to show—to hold up to man a concretized image of his nature and his place in the universe.”
“Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments.”
“By a selective re-creation, art isolates and integrates those aspects of reality which represent man’s fundamental view of himself and of existence. Out of the countless number of concretes—of single, disorganized and (seemingly) contradictory attributes, actions and entities—an artist isolates the things which he regards as metaphysically essential and integrates them into a single new concrete that represents an embodied abstraction. For instance, consider two statues of man: one as a Greek god, the other as a deformed medieval monstrosity. Both are metaphysical estimates of man; both are projections of the artist’s view of man’s nature; both are concretized representations of the philosophy of their respective cultures. Art is a concretization of metaphysics. Art brings man’s concepts to the perceptual level of his consciousness and allows him to grasp them directly, as if they were percepts.”
“As a re-creation of reality, a work of art has to be representational; its freedom of stylization is limited by the requirement of intelligibility; if it does not present an intelligible subject, it ceases to be art.”
“The Romanticists did not present a hero as a statistical average, but as an abstraction of man’s best and highest potentiality, applicable to and achievable by all men, in various degrees, according to their individual choices.”
“In art, and in literature, the end and the means, or the subject and the style, must be worthy of each other. That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth re-creating in art.” – Ayn Rand
A revolutionary treatise on the nature of art and its purpose in human life.
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