“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.

“Words Create Worlds.” Attributed to many

“Don’t explain your philosophy, embody it.” Epictetus

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” William Shakespeare

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." Albert Camus, philosopher and author

“The brain is like Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones.” Rick Hanson, PhD

“Know When to Say When.”  Anheuser-Busch advertising campaign

“If you cannot feed a hundred people, feed one.” Mother Teresa

“I’m not saying we should be grateful for everything. I’m saying we can be grateful in every given moment for the opportunity of that moment.”  Brother David Steindl-Rast

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