Brené Brown

“the hustle for worthiness.”

— Brené Brown

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

— Brené Brown

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

— Brené Brown

“He saw the real me and he liked me.”

— Brené Brown

Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.

— Brené Brown

Unused creativity is not benign.

— Brené Brown

“We can't give people what we don't have.”

— Brené Brown

Hope is a function of struggle.

— Brené Brown

“DIG Deep—get deliberate, inspired, and going.”

— Brené Brown

Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion.

— Brené Brown

The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

— Brené Brown

“We all have to find our own way deep into the wild.”

— Brené Brown

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

— Brené Brown

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

— Brené Brown

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

— Brené Brown

“Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world.”

— Brené Brown

Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you…

— Brené Brown

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need.…

— Brené Brown

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?

— Brené Brown

But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if…

— Brené Brown

“There is no true belonging, only an unspoken treaty to hate the same people. This fuels our spiritual crisis of disconnection.”

— Brené Brown

All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have…

— Brené Brown

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us…

— Brene Brown

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

— Brené Brown

“Research shows that playing cards once a week or meeting friends every Wednesday night at Starbucks adds as many years to our…

— Brené Brown

“Get Going: From taking turns being thankful during grace to more creative projects like creating a jar to keep gratitude notes in,…

— Brené Brown

“True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic…

— Brené Brown

Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving…

— Brené Brown

“And if we all have shame, the good news is that we’re all capable of developing shame resilience. Shame resilience is the…

— Brené Brown

“Perfectionism is correlated with depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis or missed opportunities. The fear of failing, making mistakes, not meeting people’s…

— Brené Brown

“We need more people who are willing to demonstrate what it looks like to risk and endure failure, disappointment, and regret—people willing…

— Brené Brown

“Joseph Campbell wrote, “If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not…

— Brené Brown

“A trai din plin inseamna sa te implici in viata ta, fiind constient de propria valoarre. Inseamna sa cultivi curajul, compasiunea si…

— Brené Brown

“Self-Compassion: Stop Beating Yourself Up and Leave Insecurity Behind, she defines each of these elements: Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves…

— Brené Brown

“We don't compare our houses to the mansions across town; we compare our yard to the yards on our block. When we…

— Brené Brown

“Without exception, spirituality—the belief in connection, a power greater than self, and interconnections grounded in love and compassion—emerged as a component of…

— Brené Brown

“Funerals, in fact, are one of the most powerful examples of collective pain. They feature in a surprising finding from my research…

— Brené Brown

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

— Brené Brown

“For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is "I didnt get enough sleep." The next…

— Brené Brown

“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a…

— Brené Brown