Knowledge is only rumor until it lives in the bones.
When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.
When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.
At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.
All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.
Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.
What makes something better is connection.
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.
We cannot give our children what we don’t have.
If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability.
I’m just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I’m alive.
Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It’s the magic sauce.
We’re all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.
Rest and play are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise.
If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.
We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.
Think about what’s pleasurable, not just what’s possible.
Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.