“The 30th of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village and hamlet churchyard in the land.” ~General John A. Logan, May 5, 1868... Walk good. 28all. Eya. *LS, MA, JD*

The Warm-Up: 

“The way you see any individual in your mind is the best they can be in your presence.” ~John Overduff

The Core: 

“Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.” ~Bruce Lee 

“The hate you receive from others is proportional to the audacity of your goals.” ~Mark Manson

“Berkshire Hathaway is a meme stock for the generation that grew up without cell phones.” ~Anthony Pompliano

“If you want to be different, you gotta move different.” ~Andrew Hawkins: Former Browns WR Andrew Hawkins Featured In Short Film

“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.” ~David Lynch

“Imagine if you took all of the time, energy and emotions you’ve been giving to meaningless relationships with part-time people, and invested all of it into your family, your loyal friends and yourself. Imagine!” ~Steven Bartlett

“Find and create spaces where your honesty is welcomed and where the full layers of your complexity are honored. Life is too short and too sacred to spend walking on eggshells and holding your breath. I hope you get free.” ~Dr. Thema Bryant

“We are easily influenced or manipulated when our brain runs out of processing power. Brains run out of processing power when we are bombarded with information. Social media thus makes everyone vulnerable and extremely easy to manipulate.” ~Kunal Shah

“Everyone looks for the ‘key’ to Winning, like you can carry it in your pocket and pop it into a lock. There is no key; it’s a combination vault of infinite numbers and infinite outcomes, with rusted, decayed dials that barely move, and digits that have been rubbed bare by countless desperate fingers trying to turn them in their favor.” ~Tim Grover, W1NNING

“The list of mistakes you can never recover from is very short. But you likely realize your life will not be destroyed if your book doesn’t sell or if a potential date turns you down or if your startup goes bust. It’s not the failed outcome that paralyzes us. It’s the possibility of looking stupid, feeling humiliated, or dealing with embarrassment that prevents us from getting started at all. The first step to being courageous is being willing to look foolish.” ~James Clear

“It means two very different things. When a person or a marketer takes your time, they’re stealing. Something irretrievable is gone. If your time is taken for selfish reasons, if it’s wasted, there’s no good way to get it back. On the other hand, when you have enough confidence to take your own time, to take your time to be present, to do the work, to engage with what’s in front of you right now, it’s a gift. This is precisely what time is for. We’re not in a race to check off as many boxes as we possibly can before we are out of time. Instead, we have the chance to use the time to create moments that matter. Because they connect us, because they open doors, because the moments, added up, create a life.” ~Seth Godin, Take your time

Last Set: 

“You cannot climb a mountain by listening to stories from other mountain climbers, or by watching films about mountains. You must actually take each step yourself.” ~Zhu Su

Food for Thought:

“You know, I think very often about Daniele De Rossi. He came to me after the Lazio match and he said something that I don’t think I had ever heard before. I was still very emotional, very angry. De Rossi sat down next to me and said, ‘Toni, I know I will never feel the same as you. But let me understand your pain. What is going on inside your head?’ He did not tweet. He did not post a black square. He cared. A lot of people in football say things publicly, but they never really come to you personally. De Rossi really wanted to know how I felt. This guy was a club icon. A legend. When I came into the dressing room for the first time, just seeing him made me feel like I was a nervous little kid. But in my toughest moment, De Rossi cared about me as a human being. He wanted to understand… Let’s go further. Even us, as footballers, we are part of this system. How many times do we have these kinds of deep conversations in the dressing room? Not that often, to be honest. It seems like we are all too distracted to really speak about these things in real life. There is always PlayStation, Instagram, cars, the next match — there is always something to distract us from having hard conversations. Why be uncomfortable? Why speak about things that make us sad? There is too much pressure to perform already. So what do we do instead? We post some captions on Instagram. ‘Kick Racism Out!!!!’ Posting, posting, posting. Feeling like we have done something. And yet we have done nothing. Nothing changes. It’s not my job to know why it is like this. But I know what it tastes like. Bitter…”  ~Antonio Rüdiger, Chelsea F.C., This Article Will Not Solve Racism in Football