607 Quotes by Brené Brown

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure - like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."