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Hope is really a thought.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
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If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.
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Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.
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Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.
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Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.
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If you own this story you get to write the ending.
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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
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How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
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What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.
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Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.
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Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.
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We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.
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Hope is not an emotion it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
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Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.
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When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
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Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
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Let go of who you think you should be in order to be who you are. Be imperfect and have compassion for yourself. Connection is the result of authenticity.
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We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
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