Courage is like – it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.
BRENE BROWNVulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
More Brene Brown Quotes
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We don’t need to do awkward, brave, and kind alone. We were never meant to.
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You can’t spell wholehearted without A.R.T.
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During a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety – when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time – apologizing has never been more important.
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No matter how much we plan and prepare, life calls and we have to answer.
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To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.
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We’re a nation hungry for more joy: Because we’re starving from a lack of gratitude.
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Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the strength to let go of our fear of uncertainty.
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Vulnerability is not about winning or losing. It’s having the courage to show up even when you can’t control the outcome.
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
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The purest form of joy comes to us in ordinary moments, and those moments can happen any place where gratitude is alive.
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Even in our deepest struggles, love, faith and beauty find a way.
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Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
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Love is a powerful form of vulnerability and if you replace the word love with vulnerability in that line, it’s just as true.
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Courageous leadership is a practice.
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Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
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Courage is listening, learning, unlearning, knowing when to lead, and knowing when to let others lead.
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We all have patterned ways of dealing with anxiety that are often set up in our first families. Understanding how and why can set us free.
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Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
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Courage is listening, learning, unlearning, knowing when to lead, and knowing when to let others lead.
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Daring Leaders are never silent about hard things.
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Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
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Love is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, 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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What we know matters but who we are matters more.
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When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.
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Courage is contagious.
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