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With the release of the video game of the year podcast this morning, two of my four year end recaps for 2025 (television/video games) are in the books. But wait… there’s more! Music is here! My 2025 list features my favorite 100 albums of 2025! Enjoy! g-bugay.wixsite.com/filmlists/po...

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It is very difficult to be creative when "anything goes" and you have no limitations, because it is the limitations that actually encourage creativity - Mark Foster

The thing about knowing who you are is you create it, you decide it, you choose it. The only question you need to ask yourself is who do I want to be? - Jonathan Decker

Try loving yourself instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. - Adam Cam 10

You don't criticize the moon for not shining the same each night. You don't look up at it and say you're not trying hard enough... because you know the moon doesn't have to be full and bright every night to be loved...and neither do you. - unknown

Every story changes when we change the storyteller. - Angkor The Lost Empire of Cambodia exhibit

Healing is remembering who you were before the World told you who you should be. - James McCrae

Nobody in the world is worth more than you, but nobody's worth less. - Stellan Skarsgard

Family is everything. But the requirement isn't blood, it's love. It's respect, warmth, safety and support. Family is whoever feels like home to your nervous system. - Alexa Ortiz

1/3 There is a beautiful Sanskrit word: mudita. It means finding joy in the happiness and good fortune of others. And in a world that teaches us to compete, mudita is radical and refreshing. We're taught to measure ourselves against others and to see someone else's rise as proof of our fall.

At your very best, you still won't be good enough for the wrong person. But at your absolute worst, you'll still be worth it to the right person. - Tom Hardy

With compromise, you both lose. As a couple, you must collaborate on the best possible outcome. - unknown

The version of you that will handle that terrible thing when it happens will be born into existence in that moment. And that version of you will have more life experience and more context and more ability to handle that thing than you do now. - Dr. Emily Anhalt

Embarrassment is an under explored emotion. Go out there and make a fool of yourself. - Austin Butler

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Seneca

Judge me for how good my good ideas are, not how bad my bad ideas are. - Ben Affleck

You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the World around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. - Dr. Jane Goodall

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve. - Christoph Waltz

A secret to happiness is to be as weird as you like and the wrong people will leave the party but the right ones will join the dance. - Katie Allen

ASAP: as slow as possible, as soft as possible, as sustainable as possible, as sincere as possible, as steady as possible, allow space and pause. - unknown

Friendly reminder that you have zero control over how other people perceive you, so you might as well just be the person you want to be. - Storybrookesoph

Everything we say at funerals should be said at birthdays instead. We leave so much love unspoken. - justmadhu

I'm way more interested in how my life feels to me than how it looks to others. - unknown

If it costs your peace, it's too expensive. - James McCrae

What doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You have got to these things time to set. - luulapants

Life gets more fun when you stop clinging to control and certainty and simply dance with the mystery. - James McCrae

I hate when people say "you don't owe anyone anything." Actually, no, I think as a bare minimum we owe each other basic human kindness and respect. - Hazel Satija

With the season less than 24 hours out, I had to have my annual episode with @EvanDyal. We break down our over-under predictions for all 30 teams. We also include our three “best bets.” Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/7zy4...

People don't fake depression. They fake being okay. Remember that. Be kind. - The Dark Lines

Life hack: stop trying to be cool. Be nerdy and obsessive about the things you love. Enthusiasm will get you farther than indifference. - James McCrae

Communication is not about saying what we think. Communication is about ensuring others hear what we mean. - Simon Sinek

A society grows great when old men plant trees, the shade of which they know they will never sit in. Good people do things for other people. That's it. The end. - Anne from Afterlife

I think if I do nothing else on this Earth than make people feel a little more loved in a time where they felt alone then I've served my purpose well. - Amber Rise

A gardener can't grow tulips or roses. He can only create the environment in which the flowers can do so. - Anonymous

Is this your own destiny? Or is it a destiny someone else has tried to force on you? - Uncle Iroh

My entire basketball career was focused around two things: How do I help my teammates be the best they can be and what do I have to do to stay on the floor? - Shane Battier

Obey the principles without being bound by them - Bruce Lee

We must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness. - Bruce Lee

Part two of our top 30 players discussion is available now! Scott Levine and I go through our top 15 players in this episode, including bringing up some of our toughest cuts. Enjoy! open.spotify.com/episode/0KQG...

Ain't got nothing left to prove. Man, I'm finally free. Damn, it feels good to be me. - Andy Grammer

One of my favorite definitions of weakness is a strength overused or misused. - Adam Grant

If your peace depends on everything going right, that's not peace, that's control. Learning to be steady in uncertainty - that's real growth. - Unknown

Storm clouds are circling around but I won't let that shit drag me down. So, I'll be singing. I'll be singing in the rain. - Simple Plan

You can do good or you can do well. - Unknown Which will you do?

Allow yourself to shine without the desire to be seen. - Unknown

Don't make yourself small for anyone. Be the awkward, funny, intelligent, beautiful little weirdo you are. Don't hold back. Weird it out. - Unknown

Don't command their fear, you command their respect. - Bill Seacaster (Fantasy High)

Shared joy is double joy. Shared sorrow is half sorrow. - unknown