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

“What’s your ‘word’? Mine is Zilience!” Me

It takes time and effort to free ourselves of the scarcity story that most of us have learned along the way – the idea that happiness is a competition, and that someone else is grabbing all the joy. — Sharon Salzberg

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

“Saying someone shouldn’t feel sad because someone else may have it worse is like saying someone can't be happy because someone else may have it better.” Unknown

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.”  Jack Kornfield

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes … including you.”  Anne Lamotte, author

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”  Victor Borge, entertainer

“Why is it important to swim with a buddy?” Our local YMCA swim instructor

“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.”

“You know what everybody needs? … Everybody needs to be understood.” Sherwin Nuland, MD, surgeon, author, bioethicist

“Energy, Not Time, Is Our Most Precious Resource” ― Jim Loehr, PhD

“We all need somebody to lean on.”  Bill Withers

“Words create worlds.” – Attributed to many

​​”One of the most effective things you can do to build better habits is to join a culture where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.”  James Clear, author, “Atomic Habits”

“We are burning through our most irreplaceable health-care resource – us!”   Mark Greenawald, MD

“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