We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Get Deliberate: When I’m flooded with fear and scarcity, I try to call forward joy and sufficiency by acknowledging the fear, then… — Brené Brown 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
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
[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Joy is as thorny and sharp as any of the dark emotions. To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude… — Brené Brown 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
“But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Twinkle lights are the perfect metaphor for joy. Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments—often ordinary moments. Sometimes… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“One of the most profound changes in my life happened when I got my head around the relationship between gratitude and joy.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.” — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Joy and gratitude can be very vulnerable and intense experiences. We are an anxious people and many of us have very little… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“TEN GUIDEPOSTS FOR WHOLEHEARTED LIVING 1. Cultivating authenticity: letting go of what people think 2. Cultivating self-compassion: letting go of perfectionism 3.… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Now I can lean into joy, even when it makes me feel tender and vulnerable. In fact, I expect tender and vulnerable.… — 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
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