To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler toward human weakn….

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith..

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their live….

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in..

Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy….

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming togeth….

To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn….

The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between p….

Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing ….

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude..

A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary….

What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude..

Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives..

There is no joy without gratitude..

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen..

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter..

Effort + the courage to show up = enough..

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is dar….

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?.

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen..

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and d….