Quote of the Day “Rabbi Nat Ezray told me to “lean in to the suck”—to expect it to be awful. Not exactly what I meant when I said “lean in,” but for me it was good advice. Years earlier, I’d
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Quote of the Day “Rabbi Nat Ezray told me to “lean in to the suck”—to expect it to be awful. Not exactly what I meant when I said “lean in,” but for me it was good advice. Years earlier, I’d

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Quote of the Day “Acknowledging blessings can be a blessing in and of itself. Psychologists asked a group of people to make a weekly list of five things for which they were grateful. Another group wrote about hassles and a

Quote of the Day “Hey dad, did you know that Deion Sanders played both offense and defense? And it was in all the Super Bowls.” – Turner, the last thing he said to me as he was getting out of

Quote of the Day “I had just learned something Buddhists have known since the fifth century BC. The first noble truth of Buddhism is that all life involves suffering. Aging, sickness, and loss are inevitable. And while life includes some

Quote of the Day “Reverend Scotty McLennan explained that in his forty years of helping people through loss, he has seen that ‘turning to God gives people a sense of being enveloped in loving arms that are eternal and ultimately

Quote of the Day “We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P’s can stunt recovery: (1) personalization—the belief that

Quote of the Day “You can’t touch music—it exists only at the moment it is being apprehended—and yet it can profoundly alter how we view the world and our place in it. Music can get us through difficult patches in

Quote of the Day “Where we blame our own bad outcomes on bad luck, when it comes to our peers, bad outcomes are clearly their fault. While our own good outcomes are due to our awesome decision-making, when it comes

Quote of the Day “We can’t just “absorb” experiences and expect to learn. As novelist and philosopher Aldous Huxley recognized, “Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.” There