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Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Imperfections are not inadequacies they are reminders that we're all in this together.
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The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.
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Faith minus vulnerability is fundamentalism
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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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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
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The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. We strive valiantly and sometimes there's the triumph of achievement but at the worst, we fail, but at least we fail while daring greatly. That has really changed my life. Profoundly changed my life.
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