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Quotes from Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience — Brené Brown

born 1965 United States

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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

Worrying and anxiety go together, but worry is not an emotion; it’s the thinking part of anxiety.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

Vulnerability is not weakness; it's our greatest measure of courage.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

The near enemy of love is attachment...True love allows, honors, and appreciates; attachment grasps, demands, needs, and aims to possess.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

I’ve learned that power is not bad, but the abuse of power or using power over others is the opposite of courage; it’s a desperate attempt to maintain a very fragile ego.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

Just as healing physical pain requires describing it, talking about it, and sometimes getting professional help, we need to do the same thing with emotional pain.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

We have to belong to ourselves as much as we need to belong to others. Any belonging that asks us to betray ourselves is not true belonging.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn’t lie to you. It learned more.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience (2021)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brené Brown (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.