Brene Brown Quotes

I think the idea of losing your hair is still very potent, emotional thing.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

So it's sheer terror, but then, this is the whole reason that we went so long to Doctor Simons, was to get rid of all these... mixed feelings that we had.

I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it I thought it would be me.

Anxiety, it just stops your life.

I have crazy claustrophobic dreams, weird elevator dreams where the elevator closes in and all of a sudden I am lying down - oh my God, it's a casket. Just freaky stuff like that.

I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn't want to fight.

The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio - it sent me a bit mad.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

Just as you're allowed to be angry about injustice, it's natural to express feelings of sadness or fear, especially if you're exhausted by the prospect of trying to keep a brave face.

You build up coming out to this horrible moment. It's so stressful, there's so much adrenaline, and there's so much primal fear - even though I know my parents to be good people - that they're going to reject you.

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

I am not the performing type. I was the one who would cry, throw up or pass out.

When you have a concussion, one of the symptoms that is common is anxiety. Imagine having the normal amount of anxieties that everybody shares - about life and meeting people in social spaces, whatever. Imagine that being multiplied by 10, 20. And so your worry over people's perceptions of you multiplies.

It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.

In my past 20 years of interaction with girls across the world I have found that girls live in fear and anxiety while growing up.

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

It's hard to talk about childhood trauma. It's hard to talk about depression. It's hard to talk about anxiety. And we thought - I wonder if we just open up our subconscious and the things that we think about and hide from people every day and just let them come out in some of these lyrics.

Anxiety is my kryptonite.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience.

I'm thirty-six years old and I've been married once and he left and I don't want to feel this way anymore. Like I can't be vulnerable. Can't relax. It's exhausting, always being on the defensive, keeping my guard up. I feel like Cuba.

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

For some, healing is too much to bear, and they hand it back, exchanging it for the fear they are accustomed to.

Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have