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

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.

Courageous leadership is a practice.

Anxiety is one of the most contagious emotions – that’s why it always takes down groups of people, not just individuals.⁣⁣

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

When we free ourselves, we automatically free everyone around us. ⁣

Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.

Fear and anxiety can drive us to become very self-focused.

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.

Daring Leaders are never silent about hard things.

We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.

he broken hearted are the bravest among us. They had the courage to love.

The purest form of joy comes to us in ordinary moments, and those moments can happen any place where gratitude is alive. ⁣

Never take yourself too seriously. Laugh, learn, keep it real.

We must be committed to getting back up and beginning again the exact same number of times that we fall, trip, or get pushed down.⁣

Connect. It’s all about collective connection. Look into their eyes.

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

All that we behold is full of blessings.

Contrast the experience with something worse and you cannot help feeling happy and grateful because. The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.

I’ve been inspired by a shitload of people in my life so if there’s ever anybody that I can inspire, to me that’s a huge gift. To be able to turn that back around.

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others.