Brene Brown

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Brené Brown

If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.

Brené Brown

Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.

Brené Brown

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone’s afraid to fail.

Brené Brown

It’s always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.

Brené Brown

It’s as simple and complicated as this: If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Brené Brown

It’s crazy how much energy we spend trying to avoid these hard topics when they’re really the only ones that can set us free.

Brené Brown

It’s not what you do; it’s why you do it that makes the difference.

Brené Brown

Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you’re lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

Brené Brown

Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.

Brené Brown