607 Quotes by Brené Brown

I’m slowing learning how to straddles the tension that comes with understanding I am tough and tender, brave and afraid, strong and struggling-all of these things, all of he time. I’m working on letting go of having to be one or the other and embracing the wholeness of wholeheartedness.

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.

It’s hard to practice compassion when we’re struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better – what makes something better is connection.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can’t have both.

Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they’re not alone. It’s the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I’m trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Nothing is as uncomfortable, dangerous and hurtful as believing that I’m standing on the outside of my life looking in and wondering what it would be like if I had the courage to show up and let myself be seen.