Brené Brown citáty

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„Zostať zraniteľnými je riziko, ktoré musíme prijať, ak chceme zažiť spojenie.“

„Vlastniť svoj príbeh a milovať sa v tomto procese je to najodvážnejšie, čo kedy urobíme.“

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

“I believe that owning our worthiness is the act of acknowledging that we are sacred. Perhaps embracing vulnerability and overcoming numbing is ultimately about the care and feeding of our spirits.”

“We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.”

“When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become defined by what people think, we lose our willingness to be vulnerable.”

“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.”

“… sometimes when we are beating ourselves up, we need to stop and say to that harassing voice inside, "Man, I'm doing the very best I can right now."”

“Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.”

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

“Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.”

“Courage originally meant "To speak one's mind by telling all one's heart.”

“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.”

“People who wade into discomfort and vulnerability and tell the truth about their stories are the real badasses.”

“If we don’t allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when…. hard things happen.”

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

“We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.”

“We don't have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.”

“No one reaches out to you for compassion or empathy so you can teach them how to behave better. They reach out to us because they believe in our capacity to know our darkness well enough to sit in the dark with them.”

“When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, “Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again”—my gut reaction is, “What a badass.”

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.”

“Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”

“How can we expect people to put value on our work when we don't value ourselves enough to set and hold uncomfortable boundaries?”

“Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.”

“… In its original Latin form, sacrifice means to make sacred or to make holy. I wholeheartedly believe that when we are fully engaged in parenting, regardless of how imperfect, vulnerable, and messy it is, we are creating something sacred.”

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

“It’s always helpful to remember that when perfectionism is driving, shame is riding shotgun.”

“If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.”

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

“As Rumi says, “We’re all just walking each other home.”

“Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen.”