Brené Brown Quotes

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

Brené Brown

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• I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Real
  • True

• Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Action
  • Little
  • Effect

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • She
  • Book
  • Remember

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • War
  • Army

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

  

  Lainie Kazan
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Write

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Things
  • All Things

• I'd rather entertain people than offend them.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Rather
  • Offend

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• You aren't going to leave me alone are you?

  

  Edie Adams
  • Me
  • Alone
  • Leave

• Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Good
  • Love
  • Health

• I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Business

• I don't know if I'm a method actor.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Know
  • Actor
  • Method

• I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Kind
  • Very
  • Loser

• The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars.

  

  Andrea M. Ghez
  • Black
  • Small

• Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Work
  • Live
  • Home

• I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

  

  Kenneth Bruce Gorelick
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

  

  Brené Brown
  • Feeling
  • Path
  • Connection