Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life

by Susan David

Courage is not an absence of fear; courage is fear walking.

“Choices,” the philosopher Ruth Chang said, “are chances for us to celebrate what is special about the human condition . . . that we have the power to create reasons for ourselves to become the distinctive people we are.”

They met me where I was, not where they wanted me to be, and that made all the difference.

Recognize that life’s beauty is inseparable from its fragility. We’re young, until we’re not. We’re healthy, until we’re not. We’re with those we love, until we’re not.