Brené Brown Quotes
Brené Brown Quotes
If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!
4975Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
3179 Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it's often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.
3592 If you own this story you get to write the ending.
3277 When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
4422 Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
3907 I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
1955 Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.
2400 Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language - it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.
3745 Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.
4689 We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
1320 Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
3415 I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
3705 Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
4004 What we know matters but who we are matters more.
2937 Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.
2639 Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.
4033 Courage has a ripple effect. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.
2336 Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary.
2026 If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.
3003 Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
3948 The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
1062 Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
2437 [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 lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.
3648 Numb the dark and you numb the light.
2490 Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
4792 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 together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.
3098 It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.
3724 If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
3747 The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression.
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