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

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.
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Perfection is crucial in building an aircraft, a bridge, or a high-speed train. The code and mathematics residing just below the surface of the Internet is also this way. Things are either perfectly right or they will not work. So much of the world we work and live in is based upon being correct, being perfect.
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We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.
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Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.
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We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.
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Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
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It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
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Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment it is the birthplace of everything we're hungry for.
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There is no creativity without vulnerability.
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The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
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Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.
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That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.
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'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.
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If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
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Empathy is the antidote to shame.
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We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.
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I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing.
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At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.
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