Brene Brown Resilience Quotes

#1. If we want freedom from perfectionism, we have to make the long journey from "What will people think?" to "I am enough." That journey begins with shame resilience, self-compassion, and owning our stories.

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#2. If you're going to drive a Hummer and buy carbon offsets, that's like getting drunk every night and getting into an AA meeting, throwing money in the basket, and leaving.

Ed Begley Jr.

#3. Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

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#4. 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.

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#5. First thing we need to understand about shame resilience is that the less we talk about shame, the more we have it.

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#6. Why the hell did he have to be so complicated? One minute he was charming, the next he withdrew behind his internal walls.

Lia Davis

#7. I'm learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude, and grace. I'm also learning that the uncomfortable and scary leaning requires both spirit and resilience.

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#8. Singing connects the mind with the heart and the heart with the soul. So sing. I dare you!

Neale Donald Walsch

#9. Shame resilience is the ability to recognize shame, to move through it constructively while maintaining worthiness and authenticity, and to ultimately develop more courage, compassion, and connection as a result of our experience.

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#10. How widely its agencies vary,- To save, to ruin, to curse, to bless,- As even its minted coins express, Now stamp'd with the image of Good Queen Bess, And now of a Bloody Mary.

Thomas Hood

#11. To strip failure of its real emotional consequences is to scrub the concepts of grit and resilience of the very qualities that make them both so important - toughness, doggedness, and perseverance.

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#12. Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.

Gordon Campbell

#13. The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.

Diana Butler Bass

#14. every time we allow ourselves to lean into joy and give in to those moments, we build resilience and we cultivate hope.

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#15. It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.

Mike Medavoy

#16. Shame resilience is the ability to say, This hurts. This is disappointing, maybe even devastating. But success and recognition and approval are not the values that drive me. My value is courage and I was just courageous. You can move on, shame.

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#17. The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Nadine Gordimer

#18. My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame resilience than you do.

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#19. Is spirituality a necessary component for resilience? The answer is yes.

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#20. Hearts was the pinnacle of my career. After I left, it really was downhill. Hearts is the club I always associate myself with, and I'm proud to have played for them.

Drew Busby

#21. If you just live totally, you will dissolve lots of karma. Living totally means that you experience anything that comes fully and intensely.

Jaggi Vasudev

#22. 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.

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#23. As he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature.

John Shelby Spong

#24. Powerlessness is dangerous. For most of us, the inability to affect change is a desperate feeling. We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear. We need to believe that we can effect change if we want to live and love with our whole hearts.

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