A Quote by Brene Brown

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.

Brene Brown

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Feelings Gratitude Happiness Hard Joy Numb

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Brene Brown
American - Author
Born: November 18, 1965

My heart is numb. It's not broke, it's numb. It's numb because of hard situations.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

Brene Brown

He'd been numb a long time, years. All his nights down Ninsei, his nights with Linda, numb in bed and numb at the cold sweating center of every drug deal. But now he'd found this warm thing, this chip of murder. Meat, some part of him said. It's the meat talking, ignore it.

William Gibson

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.

Charles Bukowski

When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.

Brene Brown

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Brene Brown

Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.

Masatoshi Koshiba

I was poisoning myself with alcohol and medicating myself. I was trying to numb things. I was trying not to feel things, and that's ridiculous. It's one of the dumbest things you can do, because all you're doing is postponing the inevitable. Someday you'll have to look all those things in the eye rather than try to numb the pain.

Johnny Depp

Joy and pain, they are but two arteries of the one heart that pumps through all those who don't numb themselves to really living.

Ann Voskamp

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Leni Riefenstahl

We become so numb to what we're saying.

Macklemore

Numb is the new deep.

John Mayer

How do I wake up to joy and grace and beauty and all that is the fullest life when I must stay numb to losses and crushed dreams and all that empties me out?

Ann Voskamp

When you're in survival mode, you numb yourself.

Clemantine Wamariya

You can't fix stupid, but you can numb it was a 2 by 4.--T-SHIRT

Darynda Jones

A Rescuer isn't always a person. Addictions to alcohol or drugs, sexual addiction, workaholism-all the ways we numb out-can rescue the Victim from feeling his or her own feelings.

David Emerald Womeldorff

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