Quotes from Brene Brown

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

Effort + the courage to show up = enough.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

Vulnerability is not about winning, and it's not about losing. It's about having the courage to show up and be seen.

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

Courage is like—it's a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

There is no intimacy without vulnerability. Yet another powerful example of vulnerability as courage.

Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

When perfectionism is driving us, shame is riding shotgun and fear is that annoying backseat driver!

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

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.