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Resources

Brené Brown: The Power of Vulnerability

Brené Brown: Listening to Shame

Andrew Solomon: Depression, the Secret We Share

Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

Kelly McGonigal: How to Make Stress Your Friend

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality.

- Andrew Solomon

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself entirely.

- Soren Kierkegaard

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.

- Proverb

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

- Pema Chodoron

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

- James Russell Lowell

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

- Oprah Winfrey

If you never know hardship, you can’t really support people around you.

- Natalia Vodianova

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

- Japanese Proverb