Brené Brown Quotes

"Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices."

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

The connection that we forge by judging and mocking others is not real connection,

Comparison is the crush of conformity from one side and competition from the other — it’s trying to simultaneously fit in and stand out. Comparison says, “Be like everyone else, but better.

If I get to be me, I belong. If I have to be like you, I fit in.

Living BIG (boundaries, integrity, and generosity).

You can choose COURAGE or you can choose COMFORT, but you cannot choose BOTH!

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

To practice courage, compassion, and connection is to look at life and the people around us, and say, “I’m all in.

Rising strong after a fall is how we cultivate wholeheartedness in our lives; it’s the process that teaches us the most about who we are.

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.

We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most.

We can choose courage or we can choose comfort, but we can't have both. Not at the same time.

Stop scouring people’s faces for evidence that you’re not enough. You will always find it because you’ve made that your goal. True belonging and self-worth are not goods; we don’t negotiate their value with the world. The truth about who we are lives in our hearts.

We want to be part of something, but we need it to be real - not conditional or fake or constantly up for negotiation.