Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot survive empathy.

We are so busy that the truth about our lives can't catch up.

Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

Share with people who have earned the right to hear your story.

You can't get to courage without walking through vulnerability.

When you ask people about love, they tell you about heartbreak.

I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

Courage - To tell the story of who you are with your whole heart.

You cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behaviors.

Don't try to win over the haters; you are not a jackass whisperer.

We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

Rest and play, are as vital to our health as nutrition and exercise

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression.

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

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

Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are.

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

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

In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail.

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

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.

The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.

When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

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

How can we embrace rest and play if we've tied our self-worth to what we produce?

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

It’s no longer a question of can I do it. It’s a question of: Do I want to do it?

Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experience.

We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.

Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.

At the end of my life I want to be able to say I contributed more than I criticized.

I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.

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

We are the most in-debt, obese, addicted and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

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