DEFINITION OF LIFESTYLE WIKI: LIFESTYLE (SOCIOLOGY) Lifestyle is a term to describe the way a person lives.

[1] this is influenced by their culture, job. and family which helps the topical individual understand the psychological, physical, social and economic environment.[2] Behaviors and the senses of self and belonging which these behaviorism represent, are collectively used to define a given lifestyle.[3] The term is defined more broadly when used in marketing, and publishing. A lifestyle is a characteristic bundle of behaviors that makes sense to both others and oneself in a given time and place, including social relations, consumption, entertainment, and dress. The behaviors and practices within lifestyles are a mixture of habits, conventional ways of doing things, and reasoned actions. Each person chooses a unique lifestyle to go about their daily lives with. A lifestyle defines who you are and how you choose to deal with many conflicts and issues that arise in your life. Although people like to think of a lifestyle as something of their creation, lifestyles are often influenced by many outside factors. Those outside factors often make many people have the same lifestyle, and therefore makes us inauthentic people DICTIONARY.COM:
noun 1. the habits, attitudes, tastes, moral standards, economic level, etc., that together constitute the mode of living of an individual or group. World English Dictionary lifestyle (lafstal) n 1. 2. 3. a set of attitudes, habits, or possessions associated with a particular person or group such attitudes, etc, regarded as fashionable or desirable ( NZ ) a.a luxurious semirural manner of living b. ( as modifier ): a lifestyle property adj 4. suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestyle: a lifestyle caf

REFERENCE
Main Entry: modus vivendi

Part of Speech: noun Definition: Synonyms: manner of living lifestyle , way of life

1. manner of living; way of life; lifestyle. 2. a temporary arrangement between persons or parties pending a settlement of matters in debate.

ONE OBJECTIVE OF THE GOOD LOOK BRAND IS TO PROMOTE SIGNIFICANCE. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO PROMOTE SIGNIFICANCE? TO ENCOURAGE ONE TO DO THINGS WITH MEANING; TO HAVE IMPORTANCE BEHIND ONES ACTIONS. ANOTHER OBJECTIVE OF THE GOOD LOOK BRAND IS TO PROMOTE SUCCESS. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO PROMOTE SUCCESS? TO INSPIRE ONE TO AIM FOR THEIR DREAMS, EXUDING CONFIDENCE THAT THOSE DREAMS CAN AND WILL BE MADE INTO REALITY.

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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist. Mary McLeod Bethune A people may become great through many means, but there is only one measure by which its greatness is recognized and acknowledged. The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and art they have produced.... No people that has produced great literature and art has ever been looked upon by the world as distinctly inferior. James Weldon Johnson If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. Ralph Ellison

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful. Alice Walker, The Gospel According to Shug People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. Alice Walker The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate. Alice Walker No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. Alice Walker True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. Arthur Ashe You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing. Arthur Ashe One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. Arthur Ashe Success is a journey not a destination. The doing is usually more important than the outcome. Arthur Ashe It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. Audre Lorde Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power. Barbara Jordan To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true. Bayard Rustin In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. Bill Cosby I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington I have never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. I have always had high regard for the man who could tell me how to succeed. Booker T. Washington You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington Let us banish fear. Carter G. Woodson In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. It constrains men to recognize it. Carter G. Woodson

Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. Charles W. Chesnutt Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen. Charles W. Chesnutt I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me spiritually and financially. Denzel Washington What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind. Eldridge Cleaver The "paper tiger" hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet. Eldridge Cleaver Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything. Ernest Gaines We are all gifted. That is our inheritance. Ethel Waters Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. George Bernard Shaw Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible. George Washington Carver Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. Gwendolyn Brooks I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. Hank Aaron I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves. Harriet Tubman Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world. Harriet Tubman The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people. Huey P. Newton I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. Huey P. Newton You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There's a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that's just begun. James Weldon Johnson Find the good. It's all around you. Find it, showcase it and you'll start believing in it. Jesse Owens

I decided I wasn't going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever. Jesse Owens We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice, and already have enough enemies as it is, to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load. Malcolm X All of us may not live to see the higher accomplishment of an African Empire so strong and powerful, as to compel the respect of mankind, but we in our life-time can so work and act as to make the dream a possibility within another generation. Marcus Garvey We have a beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world. Marcus Garvey Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. Marcus Garvey There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation. Marcus Garvey God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement. Marcus Garvey Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. Marian Anderson You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists. Marita Bonner What's the need of working if it doesn't get you anywhere? What's the use of boring around in the same hole like a worm? Making the hole bigger to stay in? Marita Bonner We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers. MLK Jr Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. MLK JR Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living. Mary McLeod Bethune

Faith is the first factor in a life devoted to service. Without it, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. Mary McLeod Bethune
Life loves the liver of it. Maya Angelou Let me tell young people this - you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter some defeats to know who you are. Maya Angelou

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. Maya Angelou Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. Maya Angelou Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. Michael Jackson I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. Michael Jordan I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result. Michael Jordan To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. Michael Jordan Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way. Nikki Giovanni White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus. Nikki Giovanni I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear. Oprah Winfrey The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. Oprah Winfrey Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure. Oprah Winfrey Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. Oprah Winfrey Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself. Oprah Winfrey I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become Oprah Winfrey