Wholehearted living is about living your life from a place of worthiness. To live wholeheartedly, you need to foster courage, compassion, and connection, so you can go about your days satisfied that no matter what you’ve accomplished, no matter what you’ve left incomplete, you are enough. Also, you will discover your place of worthiness when you readily accept that you’re imperfect, vulnerable, and occasionally fearful while, at the same time, you feel worthy of love and belonging.
Dr. Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Endowed Chair. She has spent the past sixteen years studying courage, vulnerability, empathy, and shame. She is the author of four books: The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, and Braving the Wilderness. Finally, Dr. Brown is a member of a key group of teachers who have served as my guides towards wisdom and becoming a wholehearted individual and teacher.
I hope that the following quotes will inspire you to develop the traits to live from a place of worthiness and live a wholehearted life!
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.”
– Brené Brown
“Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you’re feeling. To have the hard conversations.”
– Brené Brown
“When we spend our lives waiting until we’re perfect or bulletproof before we walk into the arena, we ultimately sacrifice relationships and opportunities that may not be recoverable, we squander our precious time, and we turn our backs on our gifts, those unique contributions that only we can make.”
– Brené Brown
“We need resilience and hope and a spirit that can carry us through the doubt and fear. We need to believe that we can effect change if we want to live and love with our whole hearts.”
– Brené Brown
“Cultivate resilience.”
– Brené Brown
“There is no greater threat to the critics and cynics than those of us who are willing to fall because we have learned how to rise.”
– Brené Brown
“Perfectionism is a self-destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”
– Brené Brown
“The irony is that we attempt to disown our difficult stories to appear more whole or more acceptable, but our wholeness – even our wholeheartedness – actually depends on the integration of all our experiences, including the falls.”
– Brené Brown
“Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
– Brené Brown
“B.R.A.V.I.N.G. – That’s Boundaries. Reliability. Accountability. The Vault. Integrity. Non-judgment. And Generosity. This is the anatomy of trust.”
– Brené Brown
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“I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
– Brené Brown
“There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.”
– Brené Brown
“You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
– Brené Brown
“Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.”
– Brené Brown
“Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.”
– Brené Brown
“What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?”
– Brené Brown
“Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.”
– Brené Brown
“The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.”
– Brené Brown
“When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.”
– Brené Brown
“I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.”
– Brené Brown
