"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."  — attributed to Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher

“Music can heal the wounds which medicine cannot touch.” - Debasish Mridha, MD, Neurologist and Author

“Sometimes our light goes out but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.  Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.” -  Albert Schweitzer, MD, Humanitarian and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient

"Care about people’s approval, and you will be their prisoner." — Lao Tzu

“Apologizing … means you value your relationship more than your ego.”  Mark Matthews, author

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Having a need and needing help is not a sign that you’re weak; it’s a sign that you’re human.” — Kate Northrup, MD, Author

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”  ― Ernest Hemingway

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change." – Jim Rohn

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall." — F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Do not overlook the little things, for the day you cease to attend to them is the day they start to grow and compound." – John C. Maxwell

“We need to be better at helping each other.”  Physician colleague who came within minutes of committing suicide

“ … all kindness begins with the sown seed.”  Mary Oliver from her poem, “What I Have Learned So Far.”

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." — Theodore Isaac Rubin, MD, psychiatrist and author

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible".  The Dalai Lama

“Medical culture is steeped in a tradition of stoicism, where showing vulnerability is often misconstrued as weakness."  Danielle Ofri, MD

“If we have pen in hand and follow the thread with a playful spirit, new and healing discoveries can emerge as if they were trapped there among the words all along, just waiting for a childlike playfulness to set them free.”   Kevin Anderson, PhD, Psychotherapist and Author

"Intimacy is the willingness to be vulnerable." – Brené Brown

"I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman, from the poem “Song of Myself, 51”

"The reasonable man [sic] adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." — George Bernard Shaw