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I've found what makes children happy doesn't always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.

I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
– Bren Brown

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  2. Forgiveness is what makes adults different to children: children just forget, adults forgive. – Tim Relf
  3. The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. – Peter De Vries
  4. I talk to children like adults and to adults like children. – Bryant McGill
  5. God gave us our children so we could prepare them to become adults. – Billy Graham
  6. I homeschool my children not to prepare them for tests but to prepare them for life. – Tamara L Chilver
  7. Highly engaged teams have highly engaged leaders. Leaders must be about presence not productivity. Make meetings a no phone zone. – Janna Cachola
  8. You can’t claim to care about the welfare of children if you’re shaming other parents for the choices they’re making. – Bren Brown
  9. Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. – Bren Brown
  10. Caring about the welfare of children and shaming parents are mutually exclusive endeavors. – Bren Brown
  11. It’s in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. – Bren Brown
  12. If you want peace, prepare for ideological war with those who want others to prepare for physical war. – Jakub Boydar Winiewski
  13. Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It’s accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics. – Stephen King
  14. Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  15. The only way to be happy is to prepare your mind to be happy. – Debasish Mridha
  16. The courageous attitudes of leaders ramble around coward followers and sooner or later, they become courageous too! – Israelmore Ayivor
  17. We all were courageous in the starting moments, few of us stayed courageous till the final moments and the world called them successful men. – Amit Kalantri
  18. If you want to be happy now, love now; if you want to be happy later, love later; but if you want to be happy always, love always. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. Do what makes you happy, make yourself happy, don’t wait for anyone to make you happy… – Nourhan Mamdouh
  20. Do what makes you happy, make yourself happy, don’t wait for anyone to make you happy… – Nourhan Mamdouh
  21. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. – Bren Brown
  22. We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others. – Bren Brown
  23. Creativity is the way I share my soul with the world. – Bren Brown
  24. When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own. – Bren Brown
  25. Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it’s never taking your car out of the garage. It’s safe in there, but you’ll never go anywhere. – Bren Brown
  26. Compassionate people are boundaried people. – Bren Brown
  27. Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen. – Bren Brown
  28. What we know matters but who we are matters more. – Bren Brown
  29. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today’s world, that’s pretty extraordinary. – Bren Brown
  30. When shame becomes a management style, engagement dies. When failure is not an option we can forget about learning, creativity, and innovation . – Bren Brown
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  32. Numb the dark and you numb the light. – Bren Brown
  33. Compassion is not a virtue — it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have — it’s something we choose to practice. – Bren Brown
  34. I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. – Bren Brown
  35. Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love. – Bren Brown
  36. You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time. – Bren Brown
  37. What separates privilege from entitlement is gratitude. – Bren Brown
  38. There is no question that engagement requires sacrifice, but that’s what we signed up for when we decided to become parents. – Bren Brown
  39. When you shut down vulnerability, you shut down opportunity – Bren Brown
  40. If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive. – Bren Brown

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