The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button. — Brené Brown Buttons Copy Share Image
“Social success is growing into a person that other people can depend on.” — Brene Brown Social Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. — Brené Brown Dangerous Copy Share Image
“Take a class. Risk feeling vulnerable and new and imperfect and take a class.” — Brené Brown Risk Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience. — Brené Brown Core Copy Share Image
“you cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behavior” — Brené Brown Behavior 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 Violence Media Copy Share Image
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. — Brené Brown Courage 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 After 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
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
If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward. — Brené Brown Enough Copy Share Image
Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles. — Brené Brown Available Copy Share Image
Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the… — Brené Brown Circumstances Copy Share Image
What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen.… — Brené Brown Dare Copy Share Image
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with… — Brené Brown Afraid to fail Copy Share Image
I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each… — Brené Brown Comedy Copy Share Image
“We feel love and we know pain. We feel hope and we know struggle. We see beauty and we survive trauma. We… — Brené Brown Beauty Copy Share Image
“The mark of a wild heart is living out the paradox of love in our lives. It's the ability to be tough… — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's… — Brené Brown Boundaries Copy Share Image
“And if our faith asks us to find the face of God in everyone we meet, that should include the politicians, media,… — Brené Brown Faith Copy Share Image
“It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how the shame web works. We have… — Brené Brown Double-bind Copy Share Image
“Connection: Connection is the energy that is created between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and… — Brené Brown Belonging Copy Share Image
“It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced, and Photoshopped… — Brené Brown Feeling bad Copy Share Image
“After listening to everyone rumble with both their pain and their privilege, the white woman who wrote the “you don’t know me”… — Brené Brown Every day Copy Share Image
“For me, and for many of us, our first waking thought of the day is "I didnt get enough sleep." The next… — Brené Brown Enough sleep Copy Share Image
“True belonging is not something you negotiate externally, it’s what you carry in your heart. It’s finding the sacredness in being a… — Brené Brown Bearing witness Copy Share Image
We judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing. If I… — Brené Brown Appearance 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 Anxiety and fear Copy Share Image
Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience. — Brené Brown Bulletproof Copy Share Image
“Steve said, It's the paradox of feeling alone but also strong.” — Brené Brown Feeling Copy Share Image
“Plomer wrote, “Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.” — Brené Brown Creativity Copy Share Image
“Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.” — Brené Brown Bullshit Copy Share Image
We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both. — Brené Brown Comfort Copy Share Image
