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We don't have to be perfect, just engaged and committed to aligning values with actions.

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Hope is not an emotion it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
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Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
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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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If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.
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Unused creativity is not benign.
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