"The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity."

-- Glenn Gould

#Art Quotes #Serenity Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.”
“While there is a great value in things that are old, it seems that the overwhelming challenge in Britain in the late 20th century is to make every effort to see value in the contemporary and in the future.”
“Itâ€™s unlikely to change â€“ thereâ€™s nothing in King Salmanâ€™s past as governor of Riyadh for about forty years that suggests that he was particularly a reformer, not on the role of women, not on democratic development. Thereâ€™s been a rumor in the last couple of days that he said to someone in an e-mail that heâ€™s in favor of a constitutional monarchy, but I would be surprised if the level of repression started to go down â€¦ I think the kind of thing that we would view as significant reforms is unlikely.”
“Back in the 1970s, I ate a high-protein diet to get bigger and stronger. As a senior at Utah State, I weighed 218 pounds with eight percent body fat, and threw the discus over 190 feet. Then I got some advice from the people at the Olympic Training Center. I needed carbs, they advised, and lots of them. They pointed to studies done on the American distance runners. Being an idiot, I took the advice to eat like emaciated, over-trained sub-performers. It took years of high carbohydrate grazing to learn the evils of this advice.”
“Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?”
“What you do and learn in life physically changes what your brain looks likeâ€”it literally rewires it.”

Source : John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.58, Pear Press
“someday you might be sad, when you might wish to talk to me but i might not able to do so”
“...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who view nature with detachment, for whom nature's appeal is primarily pictorial, classicists as opposed to romanticists, perhaps. On such a day, one is usually excited, physically exhilarated, mentally stimulated. Only not much is left for the imagination.”

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