If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable… — Brené Brown Addiction Copy Share Image
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance. — Brene Brown Authenticity Copy Share Image
“But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can… — Brené Brown Emotion 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 Belonging Copy Share Image
Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we… — Brené Brown Connections Copy Share Image
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a… — Brene Brown Connection Copy Share Image
“as someone who thought that knowledge was more important than practice, I found these words to be a call to action.” — Brené Brown Call to action Copy Share Image
“When we let people take our vulnerability or fill us with their hate, we turn over our entire life to them.” — Brené Brown Entire life Copy Share Image
“We're going to need to intentionally be with people who are different than us. We're going to have to sign up, join,… — Brené Brown Communication Copy Share Image
To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But… — Brene Brown Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We can spend our entire life betraying ourself and choosing fitting in over standing alone. But once we've stood up for ourself… — Brené Brown Betrayal Copy Share Image
“I think we should be born with a warning label similar to the ones that come on cigarette packages: Caution: If you… — Brené Brown Anxiety depression Copy Share Image
Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface… — Brené Brown Below the surface Copy Share Image
“If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go… — Brené Brown Life Copy Share Image
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like… — Brene Brown Attendance Copy Share Image
“Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
“Here’s the painful pattern that emerged from my research with men: We ask them to be vulnerable, we beg them to let… — Brené Brown Fear Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re overcoming adversity, surviving trauma, or dealing with stress and anxiety, having a sense of purpose, meaning, and perspective in our… — Brené Brown Dealing with stress Copy Share Image
Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be… — Brené Brown Affection 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 Happiness Copy Share Image
“There are times we will miss the opportunity to be empathic. Mental health professionals often call these “empathic failures.” There are also… — Brené Brown Empathic Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
“Craig Bryan, a University of Texas psychologist and suicide expert who recently left the air force, told Time magazine that the military… — Brené Brown Air force Copy Share Image
“Speaking truth to bullshit and practicing civility start with knowing ourselves and knowing the behaviors and issues that both push into our… — Brené Brown Accountability Copy Share Image
There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen. — Brené Brown Daring Copy Share Image
Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are. — Brené Brown Be kind Copy Share Image
“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want… — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day. — Brené Brown Every day Copy Share Image
We use work to numb out. We can't turn off our machines because we're afraid we're going to miss something. — Brene Brown Afraid Copy Share Image
“The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...” — Brené Brown Abundance Copy Share Image
The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter. — Brené Brown And love Copy Share Image
The only unique contribution that we will ever make in this world will be born of our creativity. — Brené Brown Born Copy Share Image
“Belonging to ourselves means being called to stand alone - to brave the wilderness of uncertainty, vulnerability, and criticism.” — Brené Brown Nature Copy Share Image
I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults. — Brené Brown Adults Copy Share Image
Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement. — Brené Brown Attention Copy Share Image
Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.' — Brene Brown Answers Copy Share Image
Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original… — Brené Brown Creativity Copy Share Image
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy… — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
I think a lot of us are multiple things that don't always fit together neatly in a bio box. — Brené Brown Alike Copy Share Image
“We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up… — Brené Brown Negotiation Copy Share Image
