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Brené Brown is a renowned psychologist, author, and speaker. Her research focuses on human vulnerability, courage, shame, and belonging. Brown's books, 'Daring Greatly' and 'The Gifts of Imperfection,' have become widely popular, exploring the complexities of human emotions and psychology in an accessible way.

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Famous Brené Brown Quotes

“What we regret most are our failures of courage, whether it's the courage to be kinder, to show up, to say how we feel, to set boundaries, to be good to ourselves, to say yes to something scary.”

Feelings Kindness Courage Regret Failure Self Love Scared Boundaries Showing Up

Book:Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Source: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

“Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.”

Feelings Pain Emotions Safety Metaphor

Book:Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution

Source: Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution

“Чувствовать — это значит быть уязвимым. Считать уязвимость слабостью — значит приравнивать к слабости саму способность чувствовать. Мы часто страшимся того, что какой-то поступок может обойтись нам слишком дорого в эмоциональном плане, и проявляем излишнюю сдержанность, а в итоге обедняем себя.”

Feelings Fear Anxiety Emotions Weakness Vulnerability Stereotypes

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Squandering our gifts brings distress to our lives. As it turns out, it's not merely benign or 'too bad' if we don't use the gifts that we've been given; we pay for it with our emotional and physical well-being. When we don't use our talents to cultivate meaningful work, we struggle. We feel disconnected and weighted down by feelings of emptiness, frustration, resentment, shame, disappointment, fear, and even grief.”

Source: The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

“'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.”

Way Needs Feelings Our Lives Crazy Fronts Busy Armor Numbing

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“All the stuff that keeps you safe from feeling scary emotions? They also keep you from feeling the good emotions. You have to shake those off. You have to become vulnerable.”

Feelings Stuff Emotion Safe Scary Vulnerable Shakes

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“If there's a feeling you have, other people have it. If there's something weird about your life, other people have lived it. If there's something kooky about your body, other people have that, too. We're not alone. There's some kind of tremendous relief in that and I think it can only be expressed in belly laughter. This tremendous relief that happens the millisecond we realize, it's not just me. That's what good laughter is about. It's about knowing that you're not alone.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Feelings Body Happens Realizing Knowing Laughter Your Body Relief Belly Not Alone Good Laugh

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“Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)”

Self Feelings Struggle Pages Shame Cameras Lenses Flawed Zoom

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“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

Ifs Looks I Can Self Feelings Belief Perfect Judgment Shame Blame Painful Primaries Fuel Destructive Perfectionism Belief Systems Self Destructive Painful Feelings

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.”

Use Feelings Grows Change Psychology Growing Shame Guilt Inability

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“After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”

Looks Enough Feelings Purpose Fear Ordinary Shame Extraordinary Vulnerability Narcissism Lenses Lovable

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“When we can let go of what other people think and own our story, we gain access to our worthiness—the feeling that we are enough just as we are and that we are worthy of love and belonging. When we spend a lifetime trying to distance ourselves from the parts of our lives that don’t fit with who we think we’re supposed to be, we stand outside of our story and hustle for our worthiness by constantly performing, perfecting, pleasing, and proving. Our sense of worthiness—that critically important piece that gives us access to love and belonging—lives inside of our story.”

“Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.”

Humans Feelings Loses Space Struggle Dangerous Capacity Vulnerable Imperfect

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“Shame: We all have it. It's that gremlin that says 'I'm not enough.' Or, if you're feeling pretty confident,...'ooh, who do you think you are?' Shame always has a seat.”

Ifs Thinking Enough Feelings Doubt Shame Seats Feeling Pretty Gremlins

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“Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.”

Needs Mean Hard Shows Feelings Asks Conversation Mindfulness Vulnerable Daring Daring Greatly

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

Hard Feelings Inspiration Joy Motivation Gratitude Numb

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“Vulnerability is based on mutuality and requires boundaries and trust. It's not oversharing, it's not purging, it's not indiscriminate disclosure, and it's not celebrity-style social media information dumps. Vulnerability is about sharing our feelings and our experiences with people who have earned the right to hear them.”

People Feelings Social Media Style Information Social Media Boundaries Vulnerability Dump Disclosure Purging

Book:Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

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

Ifs Feels Feelings Path Dangerous Weakness Connections Myth Vulnerable Vulnerability Constructive Worthiness Birthplace

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“If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.”

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead