When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

You can’t dress rehearse the bad moments.

If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about this and that, I think you've got this wrong" - then not only do I invite that, I freaking love that. I love that. I'm an academic. I'm hardwired for a good debate.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.