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“Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.” (The Gifts of Imperfection Quotes)
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“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.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Courage is contagious. My friend Katherine Center says, “You have to be brave with your life so that others can be brave with theirs.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“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.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“If connection is the energy that surges between people, we have to remember that those surges must travel in both directions.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“If we can find someone who has earned the right to hear our story, we need to tell it. Shame loses power when it is spoken. In this way, we need to cultivate our story to let go of shame, and we need to develop shame resilience in order to cultivate our story.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“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.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“If we want to live a Wholehearted life, we have to become intentional about cultivating sleep and play, and about letting go of exhaustion as a status symbol and productivity as self-worth.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“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.” (The Gifts of Imperfection Quotes)
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Perfectionism is not the same thing has striving to be your best. Perfectionism is the belief that if we live perfect, look perfect, and act perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgement, and shame. It’s a shield. It’s a twenty-ton shield that we lug around thinking it will protect us when, in fact, it’s the thing that’s really preventing us from flight.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there’s no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning, and purpose to our lives.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“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.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“The heart of compassion is really acceptance. The better we are at accepting ourselves and others, the more compassionate we become. Well, it’s difficult to accept people when they are hurting us or taking advantage of us or walking all over us. This research has taught me that if we really want to practice compassion, we have to start by setting boundaries and holding people accountable.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“The problem is that when we don’t care at all what people think and we’re immune to hurt, we’re also ineffective at connecting. Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“To practice courage, compassion, and connection is to look at life and the people around us, and say, “I’m all in.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. Research shows that perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and life paralysis.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“Until we can receive with an open heart, we’re never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.” (The Gifts of Imperfection Quotes)
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The Gifts of Imperfection
“We can only love others as much as we love ourselves”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“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.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known, and when we honor the spiritual connection that grows from that offering with trust, respect, kindness and affection.
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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.
Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.”
The Gifts of Imperfection
“When I let go of trying to be everything to everyone, I had much more time, attention, love, and connection for the important people in my life.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
“When we’re kind to ourselves, we create a reservoir of compassion that we can extend to others. Our children learn how to be self-compassionate by watching us, and the people around us feel free to be authentic and connected.”
Brené Brown
The Gifts of Imperfection
