Brené Brown Quotes - Page 12

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.

Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love, and so I have to be in the arena if I'm going to live in alignment with my values.

We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would be more love in the world. I'm not talking about rainbows and unicorns and '70s Coca-Cola commercials. I'm talking about gritty, dangerous, wild-eyed love. Radical acceptance of people. Belonging. A good, goofy kind of love.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

Lean into the discomfort of the work.

We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

What's worth doing even if you fail?

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Vulnerability is not weakness.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

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