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The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up. — Brene Brown

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough. — Brene Brown

The truth is that falling hurts. The dare is to keep being brave and feel your way back up. — Brene Brown

Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic? — Brene Brown

It's important to realize that, often, the person we can turn to regarding one issue is not the best person to talk to about other issues. — Brene Brown

I think attempting to sell people an easy fix for pain is the worst kind of snake oil. — Brene Brown

You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making. — Brene Brown

But for many of us, there is no form of self-expression that makes us feel more vulnerable than dancing. It is full body vulnerability". — Brene Brown

We're visual people. We trust, consume, and mentally store what we see. — Brene Brown

You either walk into your story and own your truth, or you live outside of your story, hustling for your worthiness. — Brene Brown

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both. — Brene Brown

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. — Brene Brown

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection. — Brene Brown

Our rational, grown-up selves are good liars. The five-year-old tyrants within us are the ones who can tell it like it is. — Brene Brown

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. — Brene Brown

We cannot give our children what we don't have. — Brene Brown

The goal is to learn to recognize when we are experiencing shame quickly enough to prevent ourselves from lashing out at those around us. — Brene Brown

every time we allow ourselves to lean into joy and give in to those moments, we build resilience and we cultivate hope. — Brene Brown

Here's how I see the progression of my work: The Gifts of Imperfection - Be you. Daring Greatly - Be all in. Rising Strong - Fall. Get up. Try again. — Brene Brown

Only when we're brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.' He — Brene Brown

Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it's the process that teaches us the most about who we are. — Brene Brown

hope is a combination of setting goals, having the tenacity and perseverance to pursue them, and believing in our own abilities. — Brene Brown

We can't opt out of the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure that's woven through our daily experiences. Life is vulnerable. — Brene Brown

They practice critical awareness by reality-checking the messages and expectations that tell us that being imperfect means being inadequate. — Brene Brown

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time. — Brene Brown

Key Learning: Shame derives its power from being unspeakable. That's why it loves perfectionists - we're so easy to keep quiet. If — Brene Brown

Do you know how incredibly brave it is to say "I don't know" when you're pretty sure everyone around you gets it? — Brene Brown

We can't practice compassion with other people if we can't treat ourselves kindly. — Brene Brown

The combination of fear of disappointment, entitlement, and performance pressure is a recipe for hopelessness and self-doubt. — Brene Brown

Sometimes when we dare to walk into the arena the greatest critic we face is ourselves. — Brene Brown

Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin' good. Nicholas — Brene Brown

If we own the story then we can write the ending. — Brene Brown

When we deny our stories and disengage from tough emotions, they don't go away; instead, they own us, they define us. — Brene Brown

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen. — Brene Brown

Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth. — Brene Brown

I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences. — Brene Brown

Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world. — Brene Brown

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending. — Brene Brown

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability. — Brene Brown

DIG Deep - get deliberate, inspired, and going. — Brene Brown

The most dangerous stories we make up are the narratives that diminish our inherent worthiness. — Brene Brown

Arenas always conjure up grandeur, but an arena is any moment when or place where we have risked showing up and being seen. — Brene Brown

Women can be the most fearful about letting men off the white horse and the most likely to be critical of their vulnerability. — Brene Brown

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process. — Brene Brown

Compassionate people are boundaried people. — Brene Brown

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion. — Brene Brown

You know how things always sound better when they're far away and you don't know the details? — Brene Brown

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame. — Brene Brown

To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. — Brene Brown

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness. — Brene Brown

we dismiss vulnerability as weakness only when we realize that we've confused feeling with failing and emotions with liabilities. — Brene Brown

Until we teach our children that they need to be concerned with how they look and with what other people think, they dance. — Brene Brown

We have to be women we want our daughters to be. — Brene Brown

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows. — Brene Brown

connections, so part of my transformation was owning and celebrating — Brene Brown

The MIDDLE is messy, but it's also where the MAGIC happens. — Brene Brown

I often refer to shame as the fear of disconnection
the fear of being perceived as flawed and unworthy of acceptance or belonging. — Brene Brown

Nelson Mandela wrote, "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies. — Brene Brown

The greatest challenge for most of us is believing that we are worthy now, right this minute. — Brene Brown

We have to believe we are enough in order to say, "Enough! — Brene Brown

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging. — Brene Brown

I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. — Brene Brown

Empathy is the antidote to shame, — Brene Brown

A sense of worthiness inspires us to be vulnerable, share openly, and persevere. Shame keeps us small, resentful, and afraid. — Brene Brown

I don't trust a theologian who dismisses the beauty of science or a scientist who doesn't believe in the power of mystery. — Brene Brown

when men feel that rush of inadequacy and smallness, they normally respond with anger and/or by completely turning off. — Brene Brown

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body. — Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness. — Brene Brown

You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. — Brene Brown

For example, when I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. — Brene Brown

I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day. — Brene Brown

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen. — Brene Brown

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do. — Brene Brown

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too. — Brene Brown

Hope is a function of struggle. — Brene Brown

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are. — Brene Brown

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter. — Brene Brown

Until both men and women are allowed to be who we are rather than who we are supposed to be, it will be impossible to achieve freedom and equality. — Brene Brown

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up. — Brene Brown

Jean Kilbourne's book, Can't Buy My Love, — Brene Brown

leaning in to vulnerability — Brene Brown

But the feeling of scarcity does thrive in shame-prone cultures that are deeply steeped in comparison and fractured by disengagement. — Brene Brown

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. - Maya Angelou — Brene Brown

Music always makes me feel less alone in the mess. — Brene Brown

In our technology-crazed world, we've confused being communicative with feeling connected. — Brene Brown

Are you engaged? Are you paying attention? — Brene Brown

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive. — Brene Brown

Let your face speak what's in your heart. When they walk in the room my face says I'm glad to see them. It's just as small as that, you see? I — Brene Brown

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others. — Brene Brown

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all women, men, and children. — Brene Brown

If we're going to put ourselves out there and love with our whole hearts, we're going to experience heartbreak. — Brene Brown

We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions. — Brene Brown

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce? — Brene Brown

Knowledge is only a rumor until it lives in the muscle. — Brene Brown

It's always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun. — Brene Brown

Because we are compelled to make stories, we are often compelled to take incomplete stories and run with them. — Brene Brown

And often the result of daring greatly isn't a victory march as much as it is a quiet sense of freedom mixed with a little battle fatigue. — Brene Brown

One woman said, "Shame is hating yourself and understanding why other people hate you too. — Brene Brown

As neuroscientist Antonio Damasio reminds us, humans are not either thinking machines or feeling machines, but rather feeling machines that think. — Brene Brown

What we know matters but who we are matters more. — Brene Brown