“High fives and fist bumps … have a lot to say about the cooperative workings of a team ….”  Kraus, Huang, and Keltner (2010)

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.  Just keep going.  No feeling is final.”  Rainer Maria Rilke (from the poem “Go to the Limits of Your Longing”)

“Not valuing time with other physicians or allowing for informal conversations leads to a soulless efficiency and professional isolation.” John Frey, MD (substitute your own profession if not a physician)

“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

“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” Jim Rohn, author and motivational speaker

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”  Attributed to many persons

“You couldn’t be in his presence without feeling a bit of his joy.” Nancy Agee, RN, CEO Carilion Clinic

“Each of us wants to know that what we do matters …. and that we matter.”  Gary Chapman, PhD and Paul White, PhD, co-authors of the book The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace

“Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen.”   David Kessler, author of Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief

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

“We often neglect our psychological wounds until they become severe enough to impair our functioning.” Guy Winch, PhD – psychologist and author

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

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together

“In dealing with those who are undergoing great suffering, if you feel ‘burnout’ setting in, if you feel demoralized and exhausted, it is best, for the sake of everyone, to withdraw and restore yourself.” The Dalai Lama

Taking time for recovery, reflection, and reprioritization is not selfish, but rather sanity and ultimately good stewardship of your life energy.   Me

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle

“A year ago, we worried about dwindling N95-mask supplies …. Now we are burning through our most irreplaceable health-care resource: hope.” Chavi Karkowsky, MD

“It is very difficult to over-encourage someone.” Mark Greenawald, MD (a principle I live by)

“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo da Vinci