“When we push aside normal emotions to embrace false positivity, we lose our capacity to develop skills to deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.”   Susan David, PhD (Emotional Agility)

“I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure …. When you shut down vulnerability you shut down opportunity.” Brene Brown

“We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.”   Jim Loehr, PhD

“Friendship is always an act of recognition …. If you realize how vital to your whole spirit — and being and character and mind and health — friendship actually is, you will take time for it.” John O’Donohue

“A minor operation is one that is done on someone else.”  Richard Selzer, MD

“And now you know … the rest of the story.” Paul Harvey, legendary radio personality

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.” EB White, author of “Charlotte’s Web”

“What’s your ‘word’?  Mine is Zilience!”  Me

“You just call on me …. when you need a hand. We all need somebody to lean on.” Bill Withers

 “The ultimate touchstone of friendship … is witness.”   David Whyte

“Emotions are contagious. We’ve all known this experientially.” Daniel Goleman, PhD (expert on Emotional and Social Intelligence)

“Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing.” – Rick Warren

“One year from now, what will be the story you tell …?”   Bumper Sticker

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” Viktor Frankl, MD

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen …. Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world.”  Brene Brown (The Gifts of Imperfection). 

“Why is it important to swim with a buddy?”  Our local YMCA swim instructor

“That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate.”   Carl Jung, MD

“For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.” Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate

“ … so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.”  - Martin Luther King, Jr.