Brene Brown Quotes

Empathy is the antidote to shame.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone’s afraid to fail.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of
worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection
to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and
how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking,
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t
change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

hat whole phrase, daring greatly, is from the Theodore Roosevelt quote that goes back to your original question of, what about the critics? And when I read his quote it was life-changing. It’s not the critic who counts; it’s not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done the better.

I wasn’t really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I’m not doing that.

If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don’t matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.