Brené Brown Quotes - Page 8

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• I’m not very creative” doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as creative people and non-creative people. There are only people who use their creativity and people who don’t. Unused creativity doesn’t just disappear. It lives within us until it’s expressed, neglected to death, or suffocated by resentment and fear.

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  Motivational, Creativity, People

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• Creativity, which is the expression of our originality, helps us stay mindful that what we bring to the world is completely original and cannot be compared.

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  Creativity, Expression, World

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

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  Believe, Want, Worthy

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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

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  Gratitude, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

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  Courage, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Listening to shame". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2012.

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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.

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  Laughter, Thinking, Knowing

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying debris in an already dangerous storm.(page 10)

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  Flying, Storm, Stories

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• Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

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  Shame, Gremlins, Daring Greatly

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

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• Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of barely enough or more than enough. Sufficiency isn't an amount at all. It is an experience, a context we generate, a declaration, a knowing that there is enough, and that we are enough.

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  Two, Knowing, Poverty

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• Spirituality emerged as a fundamental guidepost in Wholeheartedness. Not religiosity but the deeply held belief that we are inextricably connected to one another by a force greater than ourselves--a force grounded in love and compassion. For some of us that's God, for others it's nature, art, or even human soulfulness. I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.

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  Art, Believe, Compassion

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• Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

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  Inspirational Life, Giving, Purpose

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• I think laughter between people is a holy form of connection, of communion. It's the way you and I look at each other and without words, say, I get exactly what you're saying. And so, it's important to me.

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  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language -- it's from the Latin word "cor," meaning "heart" - and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

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  Latin, Heart, Stories

  "The power of vulnerability". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2010.

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• The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.

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  Connections, Worthy, Not Worthy

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• Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

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  Acceptance, Self, World

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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• The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.

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  People, Deep Thought, Buttons

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• One of the things I talk a lot about in my work that I try to practice - which is really hard - is in those moments where we're being asked to do things or asked to take over or asked to take care of something, we have to have the courage to choose discomfort over resentment. And to me, a huge part of my authenticity practice has been choosing discomfort and saying no.

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  Practice, Trying, Saying No

  "Brené Brown On Why Courage, Vulnerability And Authenticity Have To Be Practiced". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2013.

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• Most people believe vulnerability is weakness. But really vulnerability is Courage. We must ask ourselves...are we willing to show up and be seen.

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  Believe, People, Weakness

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• We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.

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  Love, Compassion, Practice

  "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.

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• I think a lot of us are multiple things that don't always fit together neatly in a bio box.

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  Thinking, Together, Fit

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

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  Thinking, People, Might

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• You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

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• If you want to make a difference, the next time you see someone being cruel to another human being, take it personally. Take it personally because it is personal!

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  Differences, Making A Difference, Want

  "I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from 'What Will People Think?' to 'I Am Enough'". Book by Brené Brown, February 2007.

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• Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.

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  Fear, Stress, Worry

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.32, Penguin

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• The laughter that happens when people are truth-telling and showing up and being real - I call that "knowing laughter." That's what happens between people when we recognize the absurdity of the belief that we're alone in anything.

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  Laughter, Real, Knowing

  Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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