“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).

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus, French Novelist and Nobel Prize Winner

“Toxic positivity is positivity given in the wrong way, in the wrong dose, at the wrong time.”  David Kessler, author of “Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief.”

“I’m less interested in skin than in fascia – connective tissue.” Matthew Barney, contemporary artist and film maker

“What I realize (and our patients will never know), what they don’t teach in medical school is how to really take a vacation.” Pam Lenkov, MD from her poem "Away Time" in her commentary “How to Take a Vacation.”

“Often, the very things we most wish to change are the most difficult to touch because they are protected by fears we have not examined." – Lisa Lahey, EdD, co-author of "Immunity to Change”

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

“Words create worlds.”  – Attributed to many.  “Worlds create words.” – Me

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”  ― Carl Gustav Jung

“In my own experience of autumn’s losses, I am rarely aware that seeds are being planted.”  Parker Palmer in his book “Let Your Life Speak.”

“Gatherings consume our days and help determine the kind of world we live in.”  – Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.  Just keep going.  No feeling is final.”  Rainer Maria Rilke

“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude”.  -Brene Brown

“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)