Brené Brown Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable, but they're never weakness.

  Brené Brown

  Courage, Parenting, Empathy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.39, Penguin

• If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Understanding, Stories

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.68, Penguin

• Self-compassion is key because when we're able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we're more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.

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  Compassion, Keys, Self

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.68, Penguin

• Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

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  Meaningful, Spiritual, Creativity

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

• Empathy doesn't require that we have the exact same experiences as the person sharing their story with us...Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

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  Empathy, Events, Stories

• If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

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  Silence, Empathy, Three

• Empathy is the antidote to shame.

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  Empathy, Shame, Antidote

  "Brené Brown Talks to The Shriver Report: The Power of Shame on Women Living on the Brink". Interview with Cara P. Lemieux, shriverreport.org. February 5, 2014.

• Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Connections, Fuel

• We are hardwired to connect with others, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.

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  Giving, Empathy, Suffering

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.16, Penguin

• 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.

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  Love Is, Two, People

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.93, Penguin

• If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

  Brené Brown

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Empathy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.37, Penguin

• Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.

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  Empathy, Attention, Engagement

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.51, Penguin

• Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.

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  Light, Empathy, Stories

• There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

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  Errors, Empathy, Effort

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.249, Penguin

• Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Shame

  "How To Turn Negative Emotions Into Your Greatest Advantage". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2013.

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