Beautiful Quotes from Daring Greatly by Brene Brown

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

Give me the courage to show up and let myself be seen.

Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.

We can't let ourselves be seen if we're terrified by what people might think.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

When our self-worth isn't on the line, we are far more willing to be courageous and risk-sharing our raw talents and gifts.

The secret killer of innovation is shame. Every time someone holds back on a new idea, fails to give their manager much needed feedback, and is afraid to speak up in front of a client you can be sure shame played a part. That deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and of being less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move our companies forward.

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.

As long as we care about connection, the fear of disconnection will always be a powerful force in our lives, and the pain caused by shame will always be real.

I am not what has happened to me. I am what I choose to become.

Own the story! Don't bury it. If you own the story you get to write the ending. When you bury the story you forever stay the subject of the story.

Empathy is connecting with the emotion that someone is experiencing, not the event or the circumstance.

The act of not discussing a traumatic event or confiding it to another person can be more damaging than the actual event.

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 between each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.

To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.

Don't take what you have for granted - celebrate it. Don't apologize for what you have. Be grateful for it and share your gratitude with others. When you honor what you have, you are honoring what people with immense suffering have lost.

Perfectionism is, at its core, about trying to earn approval. Most perfectionists grew up being praised for achievement and performance (grades, manners, rule following, people pleasing, appearance, sports). Somewhere along the way, they adopted this dangerous and debilitating belief system: "I am what I accomplish and how well I accomplish it. Please. Perform. Perfect."Healthy striving is self-focused" How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think?

"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" A 20 minute walk that I do is better than the four mile that I don't do. The imperfect book that gets published is better than the perfect book that never leaves my computer. The dinner party of take-out food is better than the elegant dinner that I never host.

Quick and dirty wins the race.

Perfection is the enemy of done.

Good enough is really effin' good.

There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

You can't selectively numb emotion. Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Wholehearted life:

Learning how to actually feel their feelings.

Staying mindful about numbing behaviors.

Learning how to lean into the discomfort of hard emotions.

Reducing anxiety meant paying attention to how much one could do and how much was too much, and learning how to say "Enough".

There are two types of people in the world, those who divide people into two types, and those who do not.

Reducing anxiety means changing behaviors, thinking, or emotions that create anxiety, not numbing it.

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

Living a connected life is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of cultivating connection with family and close friends.

It's not what you do; it's why you do it that makes the difference.

When it comes to vulnerability, connectivity means sharing our stories with people who have earned the right to hear them.

Worthiness is my birthright.