Due to her research, Brown has become an inspiration for millions of people around the world. I want to be in the arena. Talk about your failures without apologizing. 4. We weren’t born with a fear of getting too old to feel valuable.

When you practice empathy and compassion with someone, there is not less of these qualities to go around. Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Choosing to write our own story means getting uncomfortable; it’s choosing courage over comfort. By. Don’t try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”, 3. The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough. What’s inspiring to one person may read like an empty platitude to another, but we all have moments in our lives that call for a little encouragement. Words help. 25 Brené Brown Quotes on Courage, Vulnerability, and Shame.

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“What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude.”, 6. Vulnerability is not weakness; it’s our greatest measure of courage.”, 9.

Stop trying to be perfect. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete. 22. While it’s hard to whittle down her expansive work into a neat little list of quotes, we chose 31 of our favorites for you to save for that next rainy day when you need a gentle reminder that you’re not alone in this bizarre, at times brutal, and yet, beautiful life. I love Act II. It means growing gentler toward human weakness. In fact, this is the working definition I use for boundaries today.

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Carpe diem. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

As is. Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts. Shame comes from outside of us—from the messages and expectations of our culture. Our culture teaches us about shame—it dictates what is acceptable and what is not. We move what we’re learning from our heads to our hearts through our hands. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. I now see that owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. We're community-driven.

“You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.”, 10. Never created a password? In one of its earliest forms, the word courage meant ‘To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.’ Over time, this definition has changed, and today, we typically associate courage with heroic and brave deeds.

The choice to be honest. 12. Kelsey Michal is an Elephant Journal Editor and freelance writer. We weren’t born afraid to tell our stories. A crisis highlights all of our fault lines.

18. It means living so that ‘I’m only human’ does not become an excuse for anything.

10. Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. It means practicing forgiveness of my and everyone else’s hourly failures to live up to divine standards.

12 Brené Brown Quotes to Kick our Ass into Courage, Self-Worthiness & Vulnerable Imperfection. You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging. Play for free.

It’s having the courage to show up even when you can’t control the outcome. The struggle continues until s/he finally realizes that the only way home is through uncertainty and total vulnerability. MINERAL says you should be taking the whole plant. 21. True belonging is the spiritual practice of believing in and belonging to yourself so deeply that you can share your most authentic self with the world and find sacredness in both being a part of something and standing alone in the wilderness. And then there are the days when hope and comfort feel just out of reach. Write CSS OR LESS and hit save. Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. 7. You may not have signed up for a hero’s journey, but the second you fell down, got your butt kicked, suffered a disappointment, screwed up or felt your heart break, it started. But over time, we learn that curiosity, like vulnerability, can lead to hurt. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly. 13. Sign up (or log in) below