Brene Brown Quotes

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

Learn how to cope, sweet friend. There will always be dark days ahead.

I really never look at my health issues as 'Woe is me.' I've seen the reality of that. And it's not a pleasant thing.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

I did rocks, all this dumb stuff. But now it's just trying to stay afloat and just get through the days.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

These days cry out, as never before, for us to pay attention, so we can move through them and get our joy and pride back.

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

One of the things you realize when you have a health crisis in your immediate family is that life does not stop so that you can go through that experience.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.