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

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
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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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Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them.
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We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.
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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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Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.
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When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.
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When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.
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The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
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Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
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