“Tell me where it hurts.” – My Mother

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou

“Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to come to the world.” ― Joseph Jaworski from the book Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

“Celebration is habit fertilizer.”  BJ Fogg, PhD, author of “Tiny Habits: The Small Habits That Change Everything”

“And so say I. To all those who have hid too good. Get found kid! Olly-olly-oxen-free.” Robert Fulghum, author

“Something I know about community is that you have to build it before you need to lean on it.”  Suleika Jaouad (Author and Blogger)

"Grief is not a disorder, a disease or a sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve."  Rabbi Earl Grollman, author and an internationally recognized bereavement counselor

“Where attention goes, energy flows.”  Variations of this quote credited to many

“How we respond to the issue is the issue.” – Linda Graham, LFT, psychotherapist, author, and resilience expert

“If everything is important, then nothing is important.” Patrick Lencioni, author and leadership consultant

“Look closely at the present you are constructing.  It should look like the future you are dreaming.”  - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves …” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“ … belonging is the meaning of life.”  Eric Barker, Author and Blogger

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen ….”  Brene Brown

“Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and societal health.”  US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA

“ … For what matters finally is how the human spirit is spent … For this is the beginning … Therefore, let us rejoice …  Gaudeamus igitur.   John Stone, MD from his Commencement poem “Gaudeamus Igitur”

“What have you rethought recently?”  Adam Grant, PhD (author, podcaster, psychology professor)