Brene Brown Quotes

Being down makes you think who you are.

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

I think no matter how successful our lives may seem to the outside world, we all have our personal struggles.

I'm so glad I spent 10 years being sad and lonely.

I just felt that I was going to fall apart if I didn't learn to be myself.

In short? It is exhausting being me. Pretending to be normal is draining and requires amazing amounts of energy and Xanax.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

You're only as sick as your secrets.

Ironically, it was because I was raised as a Muslim in the South, that I realised the value in being true to who you really are. I've just got so many things going on inside. I don't know how to resolve all of them other than being true to who I am.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

I'm a human being. I feel all emotions. I'm not just happy all the time. Sometimes, I'm sad and feel the blues. Sometimes I even want to feel the blues. Sometimes, you want to feel down.

Depression, if it's an unconsciously elected experience, is a luxury.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Self-loathing doesn't keep me from being happy. But that doesn't mean I don't struggle.

For a long time, I would go out of my way to have a personal appearance on the verge of an insane person, because it was closer to how I felt, but I looked so dumb. So, I just stopped. It was like, 'I'm just going to look like a banker.'

Everybody feels good in their skin for about a minute a day, and the rest of the day, you're just trying to navigate your way through the sea of terror.

As a kid, all I thought about was death. But you can't tell your parents that.

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.

Depression is internal. The upswings and downswings have pretty much nothing to do with what's going on in the external world. It's not like something sad happens to you and then you feel sad. Good things happen, but you feel sad anyway.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.