Brene Brown

I’ve come to believe that we all want to show up and be seen in our lives. This means we will all struggle and fall; we will know what it means to be both brave and brokenhearted.

Brené Brown

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

Brené Brown

I’ve learned enough about privilege to know that we’re at our most dangerous when we think we’ve learned everything we need to know about it.

Brené Brown

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Brené Brown

If connection is the energy that surges between people, we have to remember that those surges must travel in both directions.

Brené Brown

If we can find someone who has earned the right to hear our story, we need to tell it. Shame loses power when it is spoken. In this way, we need to cultivate our story to let go of shame, and we need to develop shame resilience in order to cultivate our story.

Brené Brown

If we choose not to get involved or pretend it’s not happening, we’re going against the very sense of connection that makes us human.

Brené Brown

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.

Brené Brown

If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Brené Brown

If you can’t say it to me in front of my kids, don’t say it.

Brené Brown