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Brené Brown
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“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
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“Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.”
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“Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.”
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“Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.”
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“Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.”
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“Together we will cry and face fear and grief. I will want to take away your pain. But instead I will sit with you and teach you how to feel it.”
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“We live in a blame culture — we want to know whose fault it is, and how they're going to pay. In our personal, social, and political worlds, we do a lot of screaming and finger-pointing, but we rarely hold people accountable. How could we? We're so exhausted from raging and raving that we don't have the energy to develop meaningful consequences and enforce them.”
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“Shame is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging.”
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“Shame is universal and one of the most primitive human emotions that we experience. The only people who don't experience shame lack the capacity for empathy and human connection.”
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“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are. ... what silences our intuitive voice is our need for certainty. Most of us are not very good at not knowing.”
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“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
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“ ... vulnerability — the wilingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome — is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy.”
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“No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough.”
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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.”
Brené Brown, U.S. scholar, writer, speaker
(1969)