Rising Strong - Brené Brown
- No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, what that doesn’t change the truth that I am brave and worthy of love and belonging.
- Grace will take you places hustling can’t.
- You either walk into your story and own y
our truth, or you live outside of your story hustling for your worthiness. - “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. “ -Maya Angelou
- The most difficult part of our story is often what we bring to them, how we make up about who we are and how we are perceived by others. Yes, maybe we lost our job or screwed up a project, but what makes that story so painful is what we tell ourselves about our own self worth and value.
- In the absence of data, we will always make up stories. It’s how we are wired. In fact, the need to make up a story, especially when we are hurt, it’s part of our most primitive survival wiring. Meaning making is in our biology, and our default is often to come up with a story that makes sense, feels familiar, and offers us insight into how best to self protect.(…) The brain recognizes the familiar beginning-middle-end structure of a story and revolves us for clearing up the ambiguity. Unfortunately, we don’t need to be accurate, just certain.
- Self-righteousness starts with the belief that I’m better than other people and it always ends with me being my very worst self and thinking, I’m not good enough.
- People are doing the best they can.
- “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.” -Nelson Mandela
- I had to bury my idealized version of my parents and see them instead as people with struggles and limitations, with their own difficult histories and heart breaks.
- “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” -Toni Morrison
- “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
