One Love…Walk good. 28all. Eya. *RW*

The Warm-Up: 

“Nothing you do now can change your past, but I promise you everything you do now will determine your future.” ~Joe Duncan

The Core: 

“There is no book that can do your work for you.” ~Jack Butcher

“Don’t confuse buying books with having read books.” ~Alex and Books

“It takes efforts to maintain long-term relationships, that’s why many people struggle to be happy.” ~Orange Book

“Relationships don’t last because of the good time; they last because the hard times were handled with love and care.” ~Anmol Andore

“Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.” ~James Baldwin

“I just can’t give up now/ I’ve come too far from where I started from/ Nobody told me the road would be easy/ And I don’t believe He’s brought me this far to leave me.” ~Mary Mary, Can’t Give Up Now

“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. It’s loving yourself enough to give yourself everything you’ve ever wanted.” ~Matt Gottesman

“Sometimes closure arrives two years later, on an ordinary Friday afternoon, in a way you never expected, or could have predicted. And you cry a little, and you laugh a little, and for the first time in a long time…you exhale. Because you are free.” ~Mandy Hale

“Shift your goals from the external to the internal. Repeat to yourself that your objective is not to hit the target, but to deliver the best shot of which you are capable. It’s not about getting the job promotion, but about being the most deserving candidate for it.” ~Thibaut

“It’s a subtle recognition that people generally aspire to be respected and admired by others, and using money to buy fancy things may bring less of it than you imagine. If respect and admiration are your goal, be careful how you seek it. Humility, kindness, and empathy will bring you more respect than horsepower ever will.” ~Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

“But the truth is that our country is not made worse by young people reckoning fully with the legacy of slavery. Such reckoning better prepares them to make sense of how our country has come to be, and how to build systems and institutions predicated on justice rather than oppression. Nothing is more patriotic than that.” ~Clint Smith, Telling the Truth About Slavery Is Not ‘Indoctrination’

“People who are very good at Scrabble are not more kind, better judges of character, more facile with soft skills, better long-term thinkers, more fun at parties or much of anything except good at Scrabble. Of course we don’t decide on who should have positions of authority or who should be trusted based on their skill at Scrabble. It’s simply a game. Perhaps the same could be true for beauty, celebrity or the acquisition of wealth.” ~Seth Godin, The absurdity of a Scrabble hierarchy

Last Set: 

“Being fit signals that you have been consistently working out for years. Being clear-minded signals that you have been intellectually stretching yourself for years. Being in happy relationships signals that you haven’t lost track of the big picture: life is about people.” ~Orange Book

Food for Thought: 

2007 was LeBron’s first trip to the Finals. 13 years later, he’s making his 10th Finals appearance. He now has more NBA Finals appearances than all but three franchises. And in three different decades too…