Communication Quote by Brené Brown

Empathy is the antidote to shame,

— Brené Brown

“To know shame is to be human. And to have the capacity for empathy is also to be human.”

— Brené Brown

“What an uncomfortable, terrible source of shame it is for the world that the victim is so often the one left with the most…

— Fredrik Backman

“You have no reason to show shame. Sometimes our spirit weeps. When it does you must work at comforting it, and then healing it.”

— P.C. Cast

“From the recovery experience of hundreds of thousands of people, we know that there is an effective way out of this constricting and binding…

— Charles L. Whitfield

“But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.”

— Andreas Eschbach

“Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“we all have more than our share of pains and sorrow. Embarrassments and things that haunt us. From that, no one is ever immune,…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“What dooms our best efforts to cultivate empathy and compassion is always, of course, other people.”

— Tim Kreider

“And if we all have shame, the good news is that we’re all capable of developing shame resilience. Shame resilience is the ability to…

— Brené Brown

“Shame, as an emotion, has a core meaning, in relating individuals to wider social groups and norms -- real or imagined.”

— Peter N. Stearns

“When shame is your own, it’s hard enough to bear. When other people are witness to it, it becomes intolerable.”

— Rachel Abbott