607 Quotes by Brené Brown

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!” (p 272)

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'

We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.