Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.
BRENé BROWN It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, ove...
BRENé BROWN We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,...
BRENé BROWN Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embr...
BRENé BROWN Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
BRENé BROWN Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ...
BRENé BROWN I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued;...
BRENé BROWN If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't surv...
BRENé BROWN Until we can receive with an open heart, we're never really giving with an open heart. When we attac...
BRENé BROWN If you own this story you get to write the ending.
BRENé BROWN If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, ea...
BRENé BROWN Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the...
BRENé BROWN Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, ou...
BRENé BROWN Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to sho...
BRENé BROWN What we know matters but who we are matters more.
BRENé BROWN When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why...
BRENé BROWN Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren't always comfortable,...
BRENé BROWN I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnera...
BRENé BROWN Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
BRENé BROWN Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
BRENé BROWN The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It's our fear of the dark that casts our joy int...
BRENé BROWN Now I can lean into joy, even when it makes me feel tender and vulnerable. In fact, I expect tender ...
BRENé BROWN Self-kindness: Being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequat...
BRENé BROWN To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting mom...
BRENé BROWN Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of i...
BRENé BROWN Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's s...
BRENé BROWN E.E Cummings wrote, "To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to...
BRENé BROWN Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that conn...
BRENé BROWN Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an ...
BRENé BROWN Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
BRENé BROWN Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.
BRENé BROWN We're a nation hungry for more joy: Because we're starving from a lack of gratitude.
BRENé BROWN Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
BRENé BROWN You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
BRENé BROWN Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If ...
BRENé BROWN One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." ...
BRENé BROWN Shame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
BRENé BROWN Even to me the issue of "stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest" sounds like an outdated problem, but ...
BRENé BROWN In fact, all of us are very susceptible to having our humiliating experiences turn to shame, especia...
BRENé BROWN I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
BRENé BROWN The real questions for parents should be: "Are you engaged? Are you paying attention?" If so, plan t...
BRENé BROWN Too much twee emotional expression--too many claims like, "Everything is awesome," or "I just never ...
BRENé BROWN When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to ...
BRENé BROWN People often silence themselves, or "agree to disagree" without fully exploring the actual nature of...
BRENé BROWN Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
BRENé BROWN Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the worl...
BRENé BROWN We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
BRENé BROWN To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common ...
BRENé BROWN Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like yo...
BRENé BROWN Cruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
BRENé BROWN Sufficiency isn't two steps up from poverty or one step short of abundance. It isn't a measure of ba...
BRENé BROWN Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.
BRENé BROWN Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of...
BRENé BROWN Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight...
BRENé BROWN The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
BRENé BROWN Worthiness doesn't have prerequisites.
BRENé BROWN If we share our shame story with the wrong person, they can easily become one more piece of flying d...
BRENé BROWN Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
BRENé BROWN Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will th...
BRENé BROWN Faith is a place of mystery, where we find the courage to believe in what we cannot see and the stre...
BRENé BROWN We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive em...
BRENé BROWN Perfectionism hampers success. In fact, it’s often the path to depression, anxiety, addiction, and...
BRENé BROWN Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they ...
BRENé BROWN You know, and so, I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in re...
BRENé BROWN Lying is a defiance of the truth. Bullshitting is a wholesale dismissal of the truth.
BRENé BROWN It doesn't matter if the group is a church or a gang or a sewing circle or masculinity itself, askin...
BRENé BROWN When unconscious storytelling becomes out default, we often keep tripping over the same issue, stayi...
BRENé BROWN Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you “I’m not f-ing around, use the gif...
BRENé BROWN Numb the dark and you numb the light.
BRENé BROWN Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and wort...
BRENé BROWN To let ourselves be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen; to love with our whole hearts, even though t...
BRENé BROWN Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recogn...
BRENé BROWN When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to ...
BRENé BROWN The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2...
BRENé BROWN When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.
BRENé BROWN After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our familie...
BRENé BROWN In the middle of our lives, we mistakenly fall prey to the myth that successful people are those who...
BRENé BROWN you cannot shame or belittle people into changing their behavior
BRENé BROWN Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do...
BRENé BROWN I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that w...
BRENé BROWN This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and...
BRENé BROWN Folks write down the name of someone who fills them with frustration, disappointment, and/or resentm...
BRENé BROWN Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging,...
BRENé BROWN When we stop caring about what people think, we lose our capacity for connection. When we become def...
BRENé BROWN I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinion...
BRENE BROWN A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
CRAIG BROWN 'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
ZAC BROWN I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
ZAC BROWN It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best music...
ZAC BROWN In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
ZAC BROWN You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to...
ZAC BROWN Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platfo...
ZAC BROWN Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything,...
ZAC BROWN We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
ZAC BROWN I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to t...
ZAC BROWN I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we...
ZAC BROWN If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
ZAC BROWN To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes...
ZAC BROWN I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am ...
ZAC BROWN We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and g...
ZAC BROWN I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind t...
ZAC BROWN It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend ...
ZAC BROWN To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
ZAC BROWN We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
ZAC BROWN Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bi...
ZAC BROWN I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,&...
ZAC BROWN I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhoo...
ZAC BROWN I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before ...
ZAC BROWN Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for peopl...
ZAC BROWN Good music makes you feel something.
ZAC BROWN Forgive those who have hurt you.
LES BROWN Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
LES BROWN My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much late...
CRAIG BROWN There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but...
CRAIG BROWN We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
LES BROWN I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star ...
RALPH BROWN When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to an...
RALPH BROWN I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you...
RALPH BROWN I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you...
RALPH BROWN The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
VANESSA BROWN So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
VANESSA BROWN I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti...
VANESSA BROWN I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired ...
VANESSA BROWN My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
LES BROWN What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I b...
BRENE BROWN Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if w...
BRENE BROWN A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like t...
CLANCY BROWN I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hu...
GORDON BROWN Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Ra...
GRAHAM BROWN In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positi...
LES BROWN Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
LES BROWN You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
LES BROWN I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is s...
BOBBI BROWN Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
PAM BROWN If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your bes...
PAM BROWN A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To ...
PAM BROWN The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
PAM BROWN For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then ...
PAM BROWN Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
PAM BROWN One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
PAM BROWN The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling...
PAT BROWN Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens,...
PAT BROWN Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
PAT BROWN Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
PAT BROWN Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety ...
PAT BROWN Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to t...
PAT BROWN Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging arou...
PAT BROWN While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majorit...
PAT BROWN What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the...
PAT BROWN The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low we...
PAT BROWN Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much ali...
PAT BROWN Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
PAT BROWN Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public...
PAT BROWN Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good bo...
PAT BROWN Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
PAT BROWN Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
PAT BROWN Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
PAT BROWN Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
PAT BROWN While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to jus...
PAT BROWN We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
PAT BROWN Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
PAT BROWN All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
PAT BROWN There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
PAT BROWN In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
PAT BROWN Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelli...
LES BROWN John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
KATE BROWN State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other ...
KATE BROWN It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education...
KATE BROWN High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way...
KATE BROWN Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like...
KATE BROWN The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward...
KATE BROWN Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
KATE BROWN I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
KATE BROWN Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keepi...
KATE BROWN Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
KATE BROWN Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren...
KATE BROWN Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed ...
KATE BROWN Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
KATE BROWN Public health and safety are my highest priorities.
KATE BROWN My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
KATE BROWN Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public educat...
KATE BROWN I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
KATE BROWN I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in reg...
KATE BROWN I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's ...
KATE BROWN No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
KATE BROWN We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...
JERRY BROWN Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbl...
ALTON BROWN I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice.
AARON BROWN What planet have these people been living on?
AARON BROWN