Brene Brown on Stoicism Quotes

"Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think?"

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

"If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked, I'm not interested in your feedback."

"Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen."

"Vulnerability is the last thing I want you to see in me, but the first thing I look for in you."

"To love is to be vulnerable."

"Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty."

"The broken heart is what makes us human. The broken heart is what makes us capable of love."

"Perfectionism is a defensive move. It’s the belief that if we do things perfectly and look perfect, we can minimize or avoid the pain of blame, judgment, and shame."

"You can't have courage without walking through vulnerability."

"Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it."

"Numbing the dark and the difficult is what we do when we don't have the tools to handle the pain."

"There is no effort without error and shortcoming."

"Failure is a data point. It's not a person."

"We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others."

"The middle is messy, but it is also where the magic happens."

"We need to be the person we want to be, even when no one is looking."

"Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen."

"Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences."

"Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy."

"Belonging is being somewhere where you want to be, and they want you. Fitting in is being somewhere where you want to be, but they don’t care one way or the other."

"You are only as free as you are willing to be vulnerable."

"To feel is to be vulnerable."

"Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome."

"Hope is a function of struggle."

"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy."

"Don’t puff up, don’t shrink down, just stand your sacred ground."

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

"The brave and brokenhearted are the most powerful among us."

"Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage."

"When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending."

"Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind."

"We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions."