Brené Brown Quotes - Page 2

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

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

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

[I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.

It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous.

If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.

The opposite of play is not work - the opposite of play is depression.