“Let's love sport. But let's not lose sight of sport's role in addressing what ails us.”

“Imagination is a collective project. We dream together. We change the world together.”

"Our collective American future must be a welcoming, inclusive place where belonging can be a reality for everyone.”

"The secret of dogs' success is their ability to make friends...Dogs really are all about love.”

“Creativity is everywhere. But sometimes it hides beneath social conventions, rules and a fear of failure.”

“I think kindness is a behavior, a skill, it’s glue. It’s essential to all of our environments.”

“It’s vast. It’s grand. It’s whatever is extraordinarily beautiful in our lives.”

“Rather than being ruled by fear, we can learn to better balance it with our reason.”

"Each of us is a massive collection of cells that cooperate in mind-blowing ways.”

"True awareness of mortality, when it comes, is a permanent revolution.”

When Barbara Ashwood found out she was pregnant, she knew she couldn’t keep it. Fifteen years later, she realized that she had to speak out about the choice that she made.

Jennifer Ochstein’s unexpected encounter with a wild doe helped her discover a new, profound connection to the natural world.

When Patricia Murphy experienced a suicidal thought during her morning run, she decided it was time to face the traumatic memories she was holding inside and pursue therapy.

By embracing the present and uncertainty, Drew Dotson found love and weathered the heavy turbulence caused by illness.

When Ukraine-born Masha Kisel experienced a traumatic period of disconnection in college, she worried whether she’d ever find her way back to feeling normal.

Cynthia Lim’s father died when she was just seven years old, and she was determined to learn more about the truth of his life.

Recognizing that scent is an archive for memory, Megan Volpert sought to find a perfume that evoked formative years of her life.

Susan Baskin has always loved trees. When a 100-year-old tree in her backyard died earlier this year, it led her to reflect on the importance of trees—and love.

Thomas Belton was trained as a classicist. But his brother’s leukemia and subsequent death led him to question the toxic environments where they lived and played, setting him on a new career path.

In 1985, when animosity between the US and Iran was raging, Pardis Mahdavi returned home to find an angry message scrawled on her front door. It was a day that changed her and her family’s life forever.