Protecting Our Spirits

At the beginning of each of our lab meetings,members share positive concepts, lyrics, or quotes in effort to defend ourselves and our endeavors from negative, anxiety-laden cognition and behaviors. We call this Protecting Our Spirits.

From the October 9th Lab Meeting

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

-Galatians 6:9


From the September 4th Lab Meeting:

"Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals."

-Dorothy Height


From the August 15th Lab Meeting:

“We are past present and future, always.”

-Robert Battle


From the August 1st Lab Meeting:

“Do what you love and the money will flow.”

-Iyanla Vanzant


From the July 25th Lab Meeting:

"He who falls by his foot shall rise again; he who falls by his mouth shall not rise."

-Erifk


From the July 11th Lab Meeting:

"It’s about getting up when you are down, dusting yourself off and asking, “is this the best you got? Because I have God with me and I can take whatever comes my way."

-Serena Williams


From the June 27th Lab Meeting:

"If you change your thinking, you change where you are going"

- Author unknown


From the May 7th Lab Meeting:

"Women of color should not just be at the table…they should be calling the shots."

- Senator Elizabeth Warren on infant mortality research


From the April 18th Lab Meeting:

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson


From the March 27th Lab Meeting:

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."

- Author Unknown

From the February 28th lab meeting:

"You don’t become what you want; you become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

From the January 31st Lab Meeting:

"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."

- H. Jackson Brown

From January 20th Lab Meeting:

"Believe! Also- If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."

- Henry David Thoreau