Brené Brown Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Usa, Joy

• Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational, Running, Courage

• 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.

  Brené Brown

  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

• Joy is not a constant. It comes to us in moments - often ordinary moments. Sometimes we miss out on the bursts of joy because we're too busy chasing down the extraordinary moments. Other times we're so afraid of the dark we don't dare let ourselves enjoy the light. A joyful life is not a floodlight of joy. That would eventually become unbearable. I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude and inspiration

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Inspiration, Believe

• 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.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Challenges

• When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

  Brené Brown

  Pain, Joy, Numb

• The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.

  Brené Brown

  Dark, Light, Joy

• Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

  Brené Brown

  Giving Up, Joy, Vulnerable

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• Let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen, to love with our whole hearts, even though there's no guarantee... to practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, to be this vulnerable means that we’re alive.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Grateful, Believe

  "How to Love like a Child" by Allison Berkowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 30, 2013.

• To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesn’t come with guarantees – these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, I’m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Pain, Believe

  "The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are". Book by Brené Brown, August 27, 2010.

• Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Missing, Risk

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.125, Penguin

• Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

  Brené Brown

  Emotional, Joy, Resilience

  "Brené Brown: The Fast Track To Genuine Joy" by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

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

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Motivation, Inspiration

• When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

  Brené Brown

  Joy, Tolerance, Loses

  "Dr. Brene Brown: Joy Is ‘The Most Terrifying, Difficult Emotion’", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2013.

• 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.

  Brené Brown

  Hurt, Disappointment, Moving

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.62, Penguin

• [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Years, Joy

• Mindfully practicing authenticity during our most soul-searching struggles is how we invite grace, joy and gratitude into our lives.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Struggle, Joy

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

• There is no joy without gratitude.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Joy

• I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

  Brené Brown

  Spiritual, Believe, Practice

  "Brené Brown: The Fast Track To Genuine Joy" by Brené Brown, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2013.

• 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.

  Brené Brown

  Struggle, Creativity, Joy

  "..is #PANPOLY a dilemma?" by Adrienne Wu, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 20, 2017.

• The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

  Brené Brown

  Gratitude, Laughter, Love Is

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity, to name a few.

  Brené Brown

  Creativity, Black And White, Love Is

  "Living Brave". Interview with Mary Sykes Wylie, Rich Simon, www.psychotherapynetworker.org. September, 2016.

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