Listening to shame
- “Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”
- “Vulnerability pushed, I
pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.”
- “When we numb [hard feelings],
we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.”
- “You’re imperfect, and
you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.”
- “Vulnerability is our most
accurate measurement of courage.”
- “Vulnerability
is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ”
- “Vulnerability is not
weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.”
- “You cannot talk about
race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about
privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.”
- “When they teach [doctors]
how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being
all-powerful.”
- “That's what life is
about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.”
- “If you put shame in a
Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and
judgment.”
- “The two most
powerful words when we're in struggle: me too.”
