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Life Quotes by Brené Brown

51 Life quotes by Brené Brown

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A hug that gives purpose shows how connection can shape our lives. Other sayings talk about practicing courage, compassion, and vulnerability, like jumping into a cold river. They also remind us to set healthy boundaries and stop trying to be everything for everyone.

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Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

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Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

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At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

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“I've lived my entire life on the outside.”

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If we own the story then we can write the ending.

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“To practice courage, compassion, and connection is to look at life and the people around us, and say, “I’m all in.”

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“When we don't practice love with the people we claim to love, it takes a lot out of us. Incongruent living is…

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I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow…

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“A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. —…

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“Connection is why we're here. We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and…

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A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over…

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“Oprah. Her advice is tacked to the wall in my study: “Do not think you can be brave with your life and…

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“Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, "You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave…

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Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really…

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As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current…

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Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I'm standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering…

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If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in…

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Courage is a value. My faith is the organizing principle in my life and what underpins my faith is courage and love,…

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“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped…

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

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“The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It's the ability to be tough…

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If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it.…

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Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts…

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“When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think…

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“After listening to everyone rumble with both their pain and their privilege, the white woman who wrote the “you don’t know me”…

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“Twinkle lights are the perfect metaphor for joy. Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments—often ordinary moments. Sometimes…

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“Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to…

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“Daring greatly is not about winning or losing. It's about courage. In a world where scarcity and shame dominate and feeling afraid…

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“One of the tragic ironies of modern life is that so many people feel isolated from each other by the very feelings…

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“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped…

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“One of the most profound changes in my life happened when I got my head around the relationship between gratitude and joy.…

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“But after spending countless hours collecting stories about joy and gratitude, three powerful patterns emerged: Without exception, every person I interviewed who…

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“When we let people take our vulnerability or fill us with their hate, we turn over our entire life to them.”

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I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

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“When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the…

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We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

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“To foreclose on our emotional life out of a fear that the costs will be too high is to walk away from…

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“It was as if she bundled up all the courage I'll ever need in my entire life and handed it to me.”

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“intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where”

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Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction…

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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

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“No matter how separated we are by what we think and believe, we are part of the same spiritual story.”

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Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

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“I found that men and women with high levels of shame resilience share these four elements: They understand shame and recognize what messages and…

Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

“But here’s the tricky part about compassion and connecting: We can’t call just anyone. It’s not that simple. I have a lot of good…

“It turns out to be the place of true belonging, and it's the bravest and most sacred place you'll stand.”