Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent, And Lead Quotes
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.
Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.
What we know matters but who we are matters more.
Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that's what we signed up for when we decided to become parents.
Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare ourselves and our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
You can't claim to care about the welfare of children if you're shaming other parents for the choices they're making.
When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation .
The opposite of "never enough" isn't abundance or "more than you could ever imagine." The opposite of scarcity is enough...