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

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

We need to listen to Black women.

Courage is contagious.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Love is a powerful form of vulnerability and if you replace the word love with vulnerability in that line, it’s just as true.⁣

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

We don’t need to do awkward, brave, and kind alone. We were never meant to.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

During a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety – when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time – apologizing has never been more important.⁣

When we screw up or fall down, many of us talk to ourselves in ways that we would never talk to someone we love and respect.

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Invest in your own abilities, beliefs, and actions; these are the things you have control over.

There’s something about beating another human into the ground who also has the ability to fight for his life and the opportunity to take yours. it makes you feel particularly great when you win.

Your opinion about yourself influences your ability to pay your bills.

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.