607 Quotes by Brené Brown

We cannot give our children what we don’t have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

Joy comes to us in moments – ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

We can only belong when we offer our most authentic selves and when we’re embraced for who we are.

The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we’re not worthy of connection.

We are a culture of people who’ve bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won’t catch up with us.

Knowledge is important, but only if we’re being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.

We judge people in areas where we're vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we're doing.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging