Brene Brown

“It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.”

“The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.”

“You cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”

“I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.”

“Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.”

“For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.”

“The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.”

“Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.”

“Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.”