Quotes from Brene Brown

I'm just going to say it: I'm pro-guilt. Guilt is good. Guilt helps us stay on track because it's about our behavior. It occurs when we compare something we've done - or failed to do - with our personal values.

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn't change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.

The two most powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.

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

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I became Vulnerability TED, like an action figure — like Ninja Barbie, but I'm Vulnerability TED.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.