“As I look back, I realize I probably owe my career to not belonging.” — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
“She was everything I thought she'd be. Fierce and kind. Gentle and tough.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly. — Brené Brown Compassion Copy Share Image
If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful. — Brené Brown Doctors Copy Share Image
“Overcoming self-doubt is all about believing we’re enough and letting go of what the world says we’re supposed to be and supposed… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“The special courage it takes to experience true belonging is not just about braving the wilderness, it's about becoming the wilderness.” — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen. — Brené Brown Emotional Copy Share Image
“Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.” — Brené Brown Art Copy Share Image
“When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation .” — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
“At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important.… — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Denying our children the opportunity to gain wisdom directly from the trees and dance in the moonlight with the other high lonesome… — Brené Brown Children Copy Share Image
“The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It's the ability to be tough… — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with… — Brené Brown Afraid to fail Copy Share Image
I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each… — Brené Brown Comedy Copy Share Image
“We feel love and we know pain. We feel hope and we know struggle. We see beauty and we survive trauma. We… — Brené Brown Beauty Copy Share Image
“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped… — Brené Brown Life Copy Share Image
“Get Deliberate: A good friend of mine heard this wonderful intention-setting reminder during a Twelve Step meeting. I love it! It’s called… — Brené Brown Friendship Copy Share Image
“When the culture of any organization mandates that it is more important to protect the reputation of a system and those in… — Brené Brown Accountability Copy Share Image
“Shame Resilience 101 Here are the first three things that you need to know about shame: We all have it. Shame is… — Brené Brown Body image Copy Share Image
Belonging is the innate human desire to be part of something larger than us. Because this yearning is so primal, we often… — Brené Brown Acceptance Copy Share Image
Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.” Over time, this definition has changed, and, today, courage is… — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
“Before conducting this research I thought that numbing and taking the edge off was just about addiction, but I don’t believe that… — Brené Brown Addiction Copy Share Image
“What behaviors are rewarded? Punished? Where and how are people actually spending their resources (time, money, attention)? What rules and expectations are… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“The connection that we forge by judging and mocking others is not real connection,” — Brené Brown Connection Copy Share Image