607 Quotes by Brené Brown

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.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Vulnerability is not about fear and grief and disappointment; it is the birthplace of everything we’re hungry for.

When we’re suffering, may of us are better at causing pain than feeling it. We spread hurt rather than let it inside.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can’t catch up.

You can’t get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

We’re all so busy chasing the extraordinary that we forget to stop and be grateful for the ordinary.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can’t survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.