Daily Aesthetics Dump: Embracing Energy, Beauty, Strength, and Greatness
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@Kilgore I absolutely agree with you. Clothing is a huge part of how you present yourself to the world, and perhaps the biggest aesthetic choice you make on a day-to-day basis. I am a student, and most students dress like they're homeless.
Decline in dress codes may have something to do with it, but frankly you can wear formal attire and still look like a retard. I think it's about dressing with grace, which can even be done with the lowly t-shirt in slubby cottons, terry cloth etc.
I live in a temperate climate and wear a lot of linen. It's breathable and looks even better when it's a bit wrinkled. Top style icons for me are 007, Cary Grant, Steve McQueen, Dickie Greenleaf, and Ralph Lauren (my favorite Jew). These men all dress with power and aplomb: they are at ease and in control of their environment.
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I would say the main reasons for the decline in dressing are:- No standards and no expectations
- Adults were never taught these ideas
- Society hasn't held up this expectation and has no will to do so
As I wrote if a person believes in themselves they will uphold these standards.
I recommend you check out this account, he talks a lot about declining aesthetic values mainly in dressing: https://twitter.com/NecktieSalvage
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"The most important question is..... Where do we eat?"
Sorry for poasting an unaesthetic zombie...... Gillian.... you are FIRED!!!!
Nigella.... Im lost for words. I love you.
.Southern aesthetics.
I want a study/office like this and I want my children to come in and pick books of the shelves whenever they want then sit down and read while I'm working.
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Every true patriot knows about God, motherhood,
and love for the flag.
The only social concern that really is validated by history, by genetics, by identity, is patriotism.
Dressing well is neither about money nor status, but about dignity and patriotism.
What is revealed to me in the experience of beauty is a fundamental truth about being - the truth that being is a gift, and receiving it is a task. This is a truth of theology that demands exposition as such.
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Life is sacred; act accordingly.
Winning becomes a habit.
Rhododaktylos.
Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Greatness needs a lot of things but it doesn't need an audience.
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Let's form human perfection.
What you have inherited from your ancestors, earn it, so as to own it.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy.
Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image.
He who strives always to the utmost,
For him there is salvation. -
Distrust the state propaganda. Accept better health and more beauty.
You just need to find the right rules to live by, and then build a life around those rules. A strictly enforced set of personal rules can make you a king.
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One can no more pray too much than love too much. We cannot help loving what is beautiful. Invest in love.
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each includes the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences.
Love was without beginning, is, and shall be without ending.
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The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Ever since I arrived to a state of manhood, I have felt a sincere passion for liberty.
The conscience of every man recognizes courage as the foundation of manliness, and manliness as the perfection of human character.
Among us English-speaking peoples especially do the praises of poverty need once more to be boldly sung. We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise any one who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are or do and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly,—the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape. When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion. -
Perhaps man is the creature who, once struck down, defines himself by his ability to rise.
Run, run, Orlando: carve on every tree
The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she.
I thank God that I was born Greek and not barbarian, free and not slave, male and not female, but above all that I was born in the age of Socrates.
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The most effective route to achieving optimal health is by channeling the intrinsic methods that the human body has developed during its hundreds of thousands years on Earth. Recommendations that drastically diverge from this pattern will likely lead to poorer health, which is indeed what has been witnessed over the past decades.
People do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Give me healthy senses, let me be thoroughly alive, and breathe freely in the very flood-tide of the living world.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought,
Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.
The wise, for cure, on exercise depend;
God never made his work for man to mend. -
Health is the vital principle of bliss,
And exercise, of health.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.
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The nuns taught us there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end. I will be true to you. Whatever comes.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
Then my life
Will be yours.
To suffer binds you to something higher than yourself, higher than your own will. Takes you from the world, to find what lies beyond it. We are not only to endure patiently the troubles He sends, we are to regard them as gifts. As gifts more precious than the happiness we wish for ourselves.
There is love that is like a stream that can go dry when rain no longer feeds it. But there is a love that is like a spring coming up from the earth. The first is human love, the second is divine love and has its source above.
There's something I know when I'm with you that I forget when I'm away.
I wondered how it'd be like when I died, what it'd be like to know this breath now was the last one you was ever gonna draw. I just hope I can meet it the same way she did, with the same... calm. 'Cause that's where it's hidden - the immortality I hadn't seen.
This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?
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I can see now that this thread was a set up. I said so as first but it's now so obvious
