Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

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.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.