“We can’t call ourselves free or brave when we keep running from the truth.”

Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.

We need to listen to Black women.

Courage is contagious.

Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.

Love is a powerful form of vulnerability and if you replace the word love with vulnerability in that line, it’s just as true.⁣

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

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

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.

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

Talk about your failures without apologizing.

We don’t need to do awkward, brave, and kind alone. We were never meant to.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

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.⁣

When we screw up or fall down, many of us talk to ourselves in ways that we would never talk to someone we love and respect.

What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.

Will you voyage out, will you venture? Will you plunder all the gold? Will be as wise as you are brave and bold? Only beasts can do it alone, truth be told.

Have the courage to be afraid, because fear is a sign that you care deeply. If you care deeply enough, you will be brave enough.

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

There are many reasons why we don’t tell people the truth. Maybe we’re not brave enough. Maybe we’re afraid to lose someone by telling the truth. Maybe all we want for the person we love is to be happy – with or without us.

Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

We urge G7 leaders to be as brave as women and girls are every single day.