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Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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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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The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.
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In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.
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Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really 'arrive,' but we certainly know that we're heading in the right direction.
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People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.
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