Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy.

You can choose courage or you can choose comfort, but you can't have both.

The most powerful teaching moments are the ones where you screw up.

When failure is not an option, we can forget about creativity, learning, and innovation.

Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you're feeling. To have the hard conversations.

If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)