Quote

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

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
Difficult
Daring
Shows
Vulnerability
Look
Weakness
Firsts
Courage
Looks
Willing
First
Lasts
Thing
Last
Show

More quotes by Brené Brown

Image
We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.
Brené Brown
Image
You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.
Brené Brown
Image
Vulnerability is not weakness.
Brené Brown
Image
I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits
Brené Brown
Image
Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
Brené Brown
Image
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Brené Brown
Image
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.
Brené Brown
Image
It's about showing up. And sometimes I don't do it. I almost always regret it, but sometimes I don't do it. Sometimes I walk into a situation where I'm intimidated and I want to be liked and I want to fit in, and I don't choose authenticity. And it's always pretty miserable.
Brené Brown
Image
Hope is not an emotion it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
Brené Brown
Image
The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
Brené Brown
Image
When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.
Brené Brown
Image
We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
Brené Brown
Image
There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
Brené Brown
Image
If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.
Brené Brown
Image
We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
Brené Brown
Image
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued when they can give and receive without judgment and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
Brené Brown
Image
Connection, the ability to feel connected, is neurobiologically wired, that’s why we’re here!
Brené Brown
Image
How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?
Brené Brown
Image
It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?
Brené Brown
Image
Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.
Brené Brown