Brené Brown (1965 - )

Brené Brown quotes

• If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work.

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• Learning how to actually feel their feelings. Staying mindful about numbing behaviors. Learning how to lean into the discomfort of hard emotions.

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• The most powerful moments of our lives happen when we string together the small flickers of light created by courage, compassion, and connection and see them shine in the darkness of our struggles.

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• To foreclose on our emotional life out of a fear that the costs will be too high is to walk away from the very thing that gives purpose and meaning to living.

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• Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

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• We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.

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• If connection is the energy that surges between people, we have to remember that those surges must travel in both directions.

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• Perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life-paralysis.

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• Raising children who are hopeful and who have the courage to be vulnerable means stepping back and letting them experience disappointment.

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• When we’re kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others.

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• To practice courage, compassion, and connection is to look at life and the people around us, and say, “I’m all in.

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• Spiritual connection and engagement is not built on compliance, it’s the product of love, belonging, and vulnerability.

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• If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

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• Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

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• Hope is really a thought.

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• When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.

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• We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

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• Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.

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• Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

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• I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness-it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.

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• We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

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• Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them.

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• 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.

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• If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.

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• 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.

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• Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

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• Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.

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• The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

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