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What a special day. 28all. Eya. *DP, SC* The Warm-Up: “The transitions in life are teaching you how to be a better you. The journey is never easy…You win some, you lose some…Just make sure you learn and apply all you can along the way. I hope the lessons you need find you with love. You will get what you ask for…You will keep what you work for…You will not lose what’s really yours.” ~Rob Hill Sr., The Missing Piece The Core: “Forgiveness is accepting the apology you will never receive.” ~Shawne Duperon “People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them.” ~Epictetus “Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.” ~Richie Norton “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” ~Khalil Gibran “Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” ~Sun Tzu, The Art of War “A high income combined with no desire to impress anyone is a potent combination for saving a ridiculous amount of money.” ~Steven Mehr “Nobody wants to tell you why discipline is so important. Discipline is the strongest form of self-love. It is ignoring current pleasures for bigger rewards to come.” ~Anonymous “To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.” ~James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility “If you’re stuck, change your perspective. What you see from 20,000 feet is very different from what you see from 2 feet. Different perspectives reveal different solutions.” ~Shane Parrish, Brain Food. No. 556 — December 24, 2023 “Many of the best things in life grow along the way. Start hanging out with someone and love grows along the way. Start exercising and motivation grows along the way. Start writing and inspiration grows along the way. Start now and let the feeling follow.” ~James Clear, 3-2-1 “Playing safe when you are young is actually the riskiest move. Your twenties will pass in a blink. You will hear of people your age who didn’t seem particularly more talented, who got so much more wealthier, and seem to have so much more fun with life. They just had more courage.” ~Orange Book “I still make things that are pretty awful. It’s part of the process. You have periods of tremendous productivity and other periods where you’re fallow. The fallow periods are really important because that’s where you’re figuring something it out. You have to work through it in order to discover something new. You need those sorts of periods in order to grow.” ~Paula Scher, The Beautiful Thinkers Project “For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out. If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. But those who want to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” ~1 Timothy 6:7-10 CSB Last Set: “I think one of the most important parts about ‘getting older’ or ‘growing up’ is figuring out what you want your purpose to be, being turned on and motivated by the process to get there and most importantly having the courage to trust your decision making. At the end of the day we make big important decisions, but all the little ones along the way (aka the process) are what put you in a position to make the right big decisions for you. And only you can know what is right and only you can know if you truly trust it.” ~S. Carlson [Oct 14, 2019] Food For Thought: “What is a friend? I will tell you. It is a person with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with him. He seems to ask of you to put on nothing, only to be what you are. He does not want you to be better, or worse. When you are with him, you feel as a prisoner feels who has been declared innocent. You do not have to be on your guard. You can say what you think, so long as it is genuinely you. He understands those contradictions in your nature that lead others to misjudge you. With him you breathe freely. You can avow your little vanities and envies and hates and vicious sparks, your meannesses and absurdities and, in opening them up to him, they are lost, dissolved on the white ocean of his loyalty. He understands. You do not have to be careful. You can abuse him, neglect him, tolerate him. Best of all, you can keep still with him. It makes no matter. He likes you. He is like fire that purges to the bone. He understands. He understands. You can weep with him, sin with him, laugh with him, pray with him. Through it all—and underneath—he sees, knows and loves you. A friend? What is a friend? Just one, I repeat, with whom you dare to be yourself.” ~C. Raymond Beran on friendship | James Clear, 3-2-1.12.21.23 [Source: The oldest source is an untitled book of poems for 1926, but Beran’s authorship is occasionally disputed.]
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