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

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

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If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive.

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)

Shame hates to have words wrapped around it. If we talk about it, it loses its grip on us.

...the biggest mistake people make is not acknowledging fear and uncertainty.

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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