Solid…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *NG, LS*

The Warm-Up: 

“When the gatekeepers are angry, aggravated, and anxious about your presence, breathe and remember your ancestors and your assignment. You belong here.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

The Core: 

“Nothing taught by force stays in the soul.” ~Plato

“When the integrity becomes less important than the money, that’s the beginning of the end.” ~Joe Holder

“Games are won by players who focus on the playing field—not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.” ~Warren Buffett

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~Lao Tzu

“When two people have nothing to hide, no one to impress, nothing to lose, no games left to play, no attachment to specific outcomes…real connection and intimacy happens.” ~Maryam Hasnaa

“May the disappointments not overshadow your hope. May the betrayals not block your view of those who show up for you. May the fear not speak louder than love. May your yesterday not dictate your today.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“Nothing worthwhile has an end to it: You never grow so much that you can stop growing. You never try so hard that you can stop trying. You never love so much that you can stop loving. There is no destination. There is only journey.” ~Mark Manson

“Don’t underestimate the need for personal introductions or, worse, overvalue the role of an app as an effective substitute for connecting people. Technology is still a poor substitute for social engagement.” ~J. Kelly Hoey, Build Your Dream Network

“People who say they work 80-hour weeks, or even 120-hour weeks, often are just status signaling. It’s showing off. Nobody really works 80 to 120 hours a week at high output, with mental clarity. Your brain breaks down. You won’t have good ideas.” ~Naval Ravikant

“5 Stoic lessons from Seneca: 1) We suffer more in imagination than in reality. 2) Associate only with people who improve you. 3) The greatest remedy for anger is delay. 4) Value your time more than your possessions. 5) Death is not in the distant future. We are dying every day.” ~Ryan Holiday

“I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that to express it fully would require homicidal rage—self destructive, destroy the world rage—and its flame burns because the world is so unjust. I have to try to find a way to channel that anger to the positive, and the highest positive is forgiveness.”  ~Sidney Poitier (RIP)

“There’s luck through persistence, hard work, hustle, and motion. This is when you’re running around creating opportunities. You’re generating a lot of energy; you’re doing a lot to stir things up. It’s almost like mixing a petri dish or mixing a bunch of reagents and seeing what combines. You’re just generating enough force, hustle, and energy for luck to find you.” ~Naval Ravikant in The Alamanack of Naval Ravikant, ~Eric Jorgenson

“Game 7. There will come a time where you treat everything as a game 7. You will have the confidence in your choices, regardless of the outcomes because your vision is directional and intentional. You will choose partners, in life and in business, whom you can trust and rely to show up on a daily basis as their best selves, and whom don’t need to be governed, only equally supported. You will treat time by respecting the present and being honest with yourself and others. You will win daily because of the infrastructure, support and foundation you’ve built around yourself; and because you weren’t afraid to take the shot.” ~Matt Gottesman

“When multiple forces are working to deny life, to take away rights, to coerce people into submission, hope persists, the fight does not weaken, and life continues to be birthed. Through individual agendas that battle oppression and in the uniting of efforts, Black women have found a way, even when seemingly impossible, to give life. This sentiment sets the scene for the arrival of our three girls: girls who would grow up to become their own givers of life; Black girls who were born in a time of social upheaval, particularly in the United States, and also a time of Black women’s continued battle for their community.” ~Anna Malaika Tubbs, The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Last Set:

“You meet thousands of people throughout your life. Most relationships barely start, many fade away. But occasionally, you hit a home run. Treasure these people you have an instant connection with, they are rarer than you think.” ~Orange Book

Food For Thought:

“There is a saying that ‘paper is more patient than man’; it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days, while I sat chin in hand, feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don’t intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of ‘diary’, to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend. Let me put it more clearly, since no one will believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself quite alone in the world, nor is it so. I have darling parents and a sister of sixteen. I know about thirty people whom one might call friends—I have strings of boyfriends, anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who, failing that, peep at me through mirrors in class. I have relations, aunts and uncles, who are darlings too, a good home, no—I don’t seem to lack anything. But it’s the same with all my friends, just fun and joking, nothing more. I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, that is the root of the trouble. Perhaps I lack confidence, but anyway, there it is, a stubborn fact and I don’t seem to be able to do anything about it.” ~Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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