Brene Brown Quotes

When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don't touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses.

I think it would do a lot of people good just to realize how vulnerable they are.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Whoever can weep over himself for one hour is greater than the one who is able to teach the whole world; whoever recognizes the depth of his own frailty is greater than the one who sees visions of angels.

Know yourself and go in swinging, if it hurts when you hit, it might be real, too.

I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.

I wasn't paying enough attention to what my heart was telling me. When I paid attention and got the message, I could move forward and heal.

I think that when you're in love, you progressively go back to who you are.

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself-your own thinking coming back to you.

As we stop monitoring others' opinions, we connect with our heart's wisdom.

When you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

When thou findest thyself scorning another, look then at thy own heart and laugh at thy folly.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the wind like chaff, But yours you hide, Like a cheat covering up an unlucky throw. Dwelling on your brother's faults Multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey. The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. See how you love.