Quotes from Brene Brown

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer's dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

I am a storyteller and a researcher, and I'm sorry the world has a hard time straddling the tension of those two things, but that's who I am.

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

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

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

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

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.

My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, 'I'm not going to answer a call from you after nine o'clock at night or before nine o'clock in the morning unless it's an emergency.'

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

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

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