“We feel love and we know pain. We feel hope and we know struggle. We see beauty and we survive trauma. We… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Like most people, I always thought of hope as an emotion—like a warm feeling of optimism and possibility. I was wrong. I… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to effect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Art has the power to render sorrow beautiful, make loneliness a shared experience, and transform despair into hope.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“The new cultural belief that everything should be fun, fast, and easy is inconsistent with hopeful thinking. It also sets us up… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“And, if that’s not news enough, here’s something else: Hope is learned! Snyder suggests that we learn hopeful, goal-directed thinking in the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Without purpose, meaning, and perspective, it is easy to lose hope, numb our emotions, or become overwhelmed by our circumstances. We feel… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“From this foundation of spirituality, three other significant patterns emerged as being essential to resilience: Cultivating hope Practicing critical awareness Letting go… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“always put off writing by reorganizing my entire house and spending way too much time and money buying office supplies and organizing systems. Every… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
“No matter how separated we are by what we think and believe, we are part of the same spiritual story.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception -… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If you're also in the arena and you're putting your ideas out and you're owning them and you're saying "I disagree with you about… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“I found that men and women with high levels of shame resilience share these four elements: They understand shame and recognize what messages and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
