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“Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement. Trust isn’t a grand gesture—it’s a growing marble collection.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“We need to feel trust to be vulnerable and we need to be vulnerable in order to trust.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“[...] we're sick of feeling afraid. We all want to be brave. We want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear?" and "Who should we blame?”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow — that's vulnerability. Love is uncertain. It's incredibly risky. And loving someone leaves us emotionally exposed. Yes, it's scary and yes, we're open to being hurt, but can you imagine your life without loving or being loved?”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“[...] I believe that feedback thrives in cultures where the goal is not "getting comfortable with hard conversations" but normalizing discomfort.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“[...] when it comes to our sense of love, belonging, and worthiness, we are most radically shaped by our families of origin — what we hear, what we are told, and perhaps most importantly, how we observe our parents engaging with the world.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

“If you don’t believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“We realized that if you wanted a girl, you had to make an effort to have a conversation, not just drool like a horny dog.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Sports are so physical that it's easy to overlook the mind's power, but I've seen it demonstrated again and again.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“The more you do it, the more automatic it becomes, and the less effort it takes.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Often it's easier to make a decision when you don't know as much, because then you can't overthink. If you know too much, it can freeze you. The whole deal looks like a minefield.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“I believed that the only way you become a leading man is by treating yourself like a leading man and working your ass off. If you don't believe in yourself, then how will anyone else believe in you?”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Sometimes being spontaneous and jumping on an opportunity is the only way you can see art being made.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“I realized that writing something is different from saying it — and that love stories are built around people's idiosyncrasies.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“No matter what you do in life, selling is part of it.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“People were always talking about how few performers there are at the top of the ladder, but I was always convinced there was room for one more. I felt that, because there was so little room, people got intimidated and felt more comfortable staying on the bottom of the ladder. But, in fact, the more people that think that, the more crowded the bottom of the ladder becomes! Don’t go where it’s crowded. Go where it’s empty. Even though it’s harder to get there, that’s where you belong and where there’s less competition.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“I felt that there were no magazines or books around in the Stone Age, and yet every schmuck took care of babies back then, so how wrong could you go? As long as you love the baby, you figure it out, just like with everything you love doing.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“No matter what you do in life, you have to have a business mind and educate yourself about money.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Build a house, and your investment returns value. Buy a couch, and the minute you take it out of the furniture store, it loses value. That's why I always say a house, you invest in; furniture, you spend money on.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“But life is richer when we embrace the multitudes we all contain, even if we aren't consistent and what we do doesn't always make sense, even to us.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“The only way to make the possible possible is to try the impossible. If you fail, so what? That's what everybody expects. But if you succeed, you make the world a much better place.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

“Parents often complain that their adult childhood won't let them change. Children don't want their parents to move from the home in which they grew up, or convert their old bedrooms into offices. They refuse to take their cartons out of the attic or basement and become angry at even the suggestion that their parents might show them away. We are more focused on our parents as the repositories of our childhoods, which we want to hold on to, than on the sacrifices they made for us that they might no longer want to make—such as using their own bedroom or the dining rooms as an office so we could have a bedroom.”
― Deborah Tannen, I Only Say This Because I Love You: How the Way We Talk Can Make or Break Family Relationships Throughout Our Lives

“While boys create connections through friendly competition, girls create connections by downplaying competition and focusing on similarities.”
― Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

“Sometimes it's not self-evident whether a remark is truly meant to be hurtful or meant in the spirit of friendly teasing (or ambiguous or both at once). Between women and men, teasing is risky because playful insults are a common way of showing affection among boys and men but less so for most women—at least most American women. My husband tells me that one of the first things he learned about me was that he had to curb his impulse to tease me because I would be hurt rather than touched.”
― Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

“Many women discuss with friends what's troubling them, because talking about personal problems is one of the fundamental ways that women create friendship. But when a woman's problems involve family members—which they often do—discussing personal problems means taking inside information about family members outside the family. Men, in particular, often perceive this as betrayal, because they don't understand the purpose: Men's friendships are typically built not on telling secrets but rather on sharing activities—doing things together. From Tom's point of view, Eve's talking to her friends about him was breaching the walls of the family fortress.”
― Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation

“The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we believe it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“When we went against the rules we were punished; when we went along with the rules we got a reward. We were punished many times a day, and we were also rewarded many times a day. Soon we became afraid of being punished and also afraid of not receiving the reward. The reward is the attention that we got from our parents or form other people like siblings, teachers, and friends. We soon develop a need to hook other people's attention in order to get the reward.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz

“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
― don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“De trădat îți poți trăda părinții, soțul, dragostea, țara, dar ce-ți mai rămâne de trădat atunci când nu mai ai nici părinți, nici soț, nici dragoste, nici țară?”
― Milan Kundera, Insuportabila ușurătate a ființei

“Cel ce trăiește printre străini se mișcă într-un spațiu vid, deasupra pământului, fără acea plasă de protecție pe care i-o întinde oricărei ființe umane propria-i țară, unde se află familia sa, colegii săi, prietenii săi, și unde se face lesne înțeles în limba pe care o cunoaște din copilărie.”
― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being