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

“If everything is important, then nothing is important.” Patrick Lencioni, author and leadership consultant

“Look closely at the present you are constructing.  It should look like the future you are dreaming.”  - Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author

“Be patient toward all that is unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves …” ― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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

“ … belonging is the meaning of life.”  Eric Barker, Author and Blogger

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen ….”  Brene Brown

“Loneliness is far more than just a bad feeling—it harms both individual and societal health.”  US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA

“ … For what matters finally is how the human spirit is spent … For this is the beginning … Therefore, let us rejoice …  Gaudeamus igitur.   John Stone, MD from his Commencement poem “Gaudeamus Igitur”

“What have you rethought recently?”  Adam Grant, PhD (author, podcaster, psychology professor)

“Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our children’s health (and also, by the way, in our own).” ― Richard Louv, Author and Journalist

“Psychological safety and courage are simply two sides of the same immensely valuable coin.  Both are – and will continue to be – needed in a complex and uncertain world.”  Amy Edmondson, PhD

“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 in his book Life Together

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

“If I knew this was the last time I’ll see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.” Gabriel Garcia Marquez, novelist

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

“We either live with intention or exist by default.” – Kristin Armstrong, professional cyclist and 3-time Olympic gold medal winner (and no relation to Lance …)

“Poetry is a life-cherishing force …. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, and something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”   Mary Oliver, poet:  A Poetry Handbook

"I got it wrong. I do not think it is possible to learn to recognize emotion in other people …. There is no merit in trying to walk in someone else's shoes. Let them tell their own story ... and believe them." Brene Brown, PhD