Quote

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Brené Brown

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
Author
Essayist
Podcaster
Researcher
Scientist
Social Worker
Military City
USA
Brene Brown
Painful
Positive
Emotion
Cannot
Also
Selectively
Numb
Emotions

More quotes by Brené Brown

Image
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.
Brené Brown
Image
Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.
Brené Brown
Image
Hope is not an emotion it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
Brené Brown
Image
Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.
Brené Brown
Image
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.
Brené Brown
Image
Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives.
Brené Brown
Image
We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.
Brené Brown
Image
Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!
Brené Brown
Image
Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.
Brené Brown
Image
If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
Brené Brown
Image
A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.
Brené Brown
Image
If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.
Brené Brown
Image
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.
Brené Brown
Image
I can't even think of the right word, but it's not help. It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so tribe and belonging are irreducible needs, like love.
Brené Brown
Image
I think a lot of us are looking for the same thing. I feel very lucky to have a definitive moment where I know everything shifted in me, and it was the moment I read that quote. Because I thought, A. That's everything I know about vulnerability. It's not winning, it's not losing, it's showing up and being seen. B. That's who I want to be.
Brené Brown
Image
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.
Brené Brown
Image
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
Brené Brown
Image
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.
Brené Brown
Image
Every single person has a story that will break your heart. And if you're paying attention, many people... have a story that will bring you to your knees. Nobody rides for free.
Brené Brown
Image
Effort + the courage to show up = enough.
Brené Brown