“Daring Leaders are never silent about hard things.”

Our ability to live a life of love and meaning, to make the world a braver and kinder place.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

Always straddling the tension and trying not to tap out.⁣

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

Courage is like – it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.

You can’t spell wholehearted without A.R.T.

This global pandemic is a real case of “getting sick together” or “staying well together.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

Being held accountable for racism and feeling shame is not the same thing as being shamed.

Learning is hard. Unlearning is harder. Pretending that most of us don’t need to do either when it comes to racism is its own form of violence.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

We either stay sick together or we get well together.

Be you and serve up some belonging wherever you are.

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, ’tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

I’ve seen more courageous daughters than stronger men.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

It’s okay, not many have the courage to love you.

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.