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Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
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I don't just want someone who says they love me I want someone who practices that love for me every day.
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
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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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Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.
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When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
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It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?
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