Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being sha — Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
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Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
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It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time. — Oliver Franks
I know that's a secret for it's whispered everywhere. — William Congreve
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own. — Goethe
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of — Henry Taylor
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect. — Isak Dinesen
Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult. — William Butler Yeats
If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it up in frankness. — Alexander Smith
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Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets s — Bible
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however — Samuel Johnson, The Rambler