“Either way, anger is a powerful catalyst but a life-sucking companion.” — Brené Brown Anger Copy Share Image
“UnMarketing: “Don’t try to win over the haters; you’re not the jackass whisperer.” — Brené Brown Haters Copy Share Image
In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen. — Brené Brown Connection Copy Share Image
In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“Killing Us Softly 4,6 and Katz’s DVD is titled Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity.7) As” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“You are only free when you realize you belong no place—you belong every place—no place at all. The price is high. The… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
We're all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we… — Brené Brown Character Copy Share Image
“Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, "You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily… — Brené Brown Daily life Copy Share Image
“Connection to a larger humanity gives people more freedom to express their individuality without fear of jeopardizing belonging.” — Brené Brown Fear Copy Share Image
“But here’s the dilemma: Why is “how-to” so alluring when, truthfully, we already know “how to” yet we’re still standing in the… — Brené Brown Dilemma Copy Share Image
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… — Brené Brown Angry Copy Share Image
“Stillness is not about focusing on nothingness; it’s about creating a clearing. It’s opening up an emotionally clutter-free space and allowing ourselves… — Brené Brown Nothingness Copy Share Image
Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us,… — Brené Brown Beautiful life Copy Share Image
“Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be,… — Brené Brown Expectations Copy Share Image
“political correctness. The history of this concept is as wild and unruly as the conversations about it have become. At this point,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows… — Brené Brown Addiction Copy Share Image
Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love,… — Brené Brown Alignment Copy Share Image
“True belonging is not passive. It's not the belonging that comes with just joining a group. It's not fitting in or pretending… — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we’re afraid to let them see it in us. We’re afraid… — Brené Brown Truth Copy Share Image
Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“After that, he said, his father, who had always been neutral about his art, forbade him from taking classes. Even his mother,… — Brené Brown Art Copy Share Image
“Cultivating intuition and trusting faith: letting go of the need for certainty 6. Cultivating creativity: letting go of comparison 7. Cultivating play… — Brené Brown Creativity Copy Share Image
When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that… — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
“When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think… — Brené Brown Life Copy Share Image
Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection. — Brené Brown Connection Copy Share Image
“If we want to reignite innovation and passion, we have to rehumanize work.” — Brené Brown Innovation Copy Share Image
Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be. — Brené Brown Inspirational Copy Share Image
When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding. — Brené Brown Foreboding Copy Share Image