Joy Brene Brown Quotes

#1. When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.

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

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#3. Dangers by being despised grow great.

Edmund Burke

#4. Numb the dark and you numb the light.

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#5. 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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#6. The only universal language I know of that wraps up joy and gratitude and love is laughter.

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#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. Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.

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#9. Stay in your own lane. Comparison kills creativity and joy.

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#10. All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the magazine that glorified them and in a way that made them exist, actors, rock musicians, famous writers, politicians. Those aren't people, he fumed, they're photographs.

Russell Banks

#11. With my biology degree, I got this job at an environmental lab. We tested sewage runoff, we tested chemical warfare waste runoff. It's a job I'll never do again and I would never wish upon anybody.

Dustin Lynch

#12. What Is Joy? Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness. Happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.

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#13. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.

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#14. I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

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#15. There is one guarantee: If we're not practicing gratitude and allowing ourselves to know joy, we are missing out on the two things that will actually sustain us during the inevitable hard times. What

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#16. [I] never talk about gratitude and joy separately, for this reason. In 12 years, I've never interviewed a single person who would describe their lives as joyful, who would describe themselves as joyous, who was not actively practicing gratitude.

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#17. When we spend our lives (knowingly or unknowingly) pushing away vulnerability, we can't hold space open for the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure of joy.

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#18. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy - the experiences that make us the most vulnerable.

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#19. 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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#20. the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome - is the only path to more love, belonging, and joy. He

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#21. If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.

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#22. I believe joy is a spiritual practice.

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#23. 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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#24. We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.

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#25. I believe that vulnerability - the willingness 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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#26. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.

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#27. You might as well play at the show everyone else is playing at.

J Mascis

#28. When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

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#29. Or when I loved so fiercely that rather than feeling gratitude and joy I could only prepare for loss - I

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#30. I learned about the inextricable connection between joy and gratitude, and how things that I take for granted, like rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise.

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#31. You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this?

James Van Der Beek

#32. When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

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