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Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
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Hope is a function of struggle.
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Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.
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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!
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You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
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When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.
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We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.
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You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
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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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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.
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If you own this story you get to write the ending.
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Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.
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Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
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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.
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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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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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We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection
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I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.
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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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When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
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