“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”  George Bernard Shaw

“Be sure to always maintain some creative interests outside of medicine.”  Dad

"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 prominent bereavement counselor

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

“Balance is not better time management, but better boundary management. Balance means making choices and enjoying those choices." – Betsy Jacobson, Author and Businesswoman

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."  Viktor Frankl, MD, psychotherapist and author

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

"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

“What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." – Desiderius Erasmus

"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