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Top 15 Maureen Brady Quotes (2025 Update)

Maureen Brady Quote: “I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself.”

1. “I am a whole person and have the potential to bring together all the different aspects of myself.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “Sometimes we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life. We are bound to feel anxious as we leave behind old notions of our unworthiness. The challenge is not to be fearless, but to develop strategies of acknowledging our fears and finding out how we can allay them.”

2. “Sometimes we self-sabotage just when things seem to be going smoothly. Perhaps this is a way to express our fear about whether it is okay for us to have a better life. We are bound to feel anxious as we leave behind old notions of our unworthiness. The challenge is not to be fearless, but to develop strategies of acknowledging our fears and finding out how we can allay them.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.”

3. “Fearing the unknown within myself has kept me crouching in a corner. I look to see who I am and discover much that is worthy.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.”

4. “I choose what sort of relationship I want to have with my family of origin today.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.”

5. “I am building a healthy support system and learning to use it readily.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness... We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.”

6. “For change to occur in us, we must be willing to enter the wilderness of the unknown and to wander in unfamiliar territory, directionless and often in the darkness... We do not need to keep every little thing under control. In fact, we find ourselves only by allowing some falling apart to happen.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “Our need to be “greater than” or “less than” has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.”

7. “Our need to be “greater than” or “less than” has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.”

8. “I am empowered by self-knowledge, by ownership of my experiences, and by all aspects of myself.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “It is not my wish to stay home so much that I become isolated, but to use the comforting influence of my home to restore and gather myself after each step I take in my expanding ability to participate in the world.”

9. “It is not my wish to stay home so much that I become isolated, but to use the comforting influence of my home to restore and gather myself after each step I take in my expanding ability to participate in the world.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground... it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.”

10. “When we first begin to take power more directly, after long having kept our relationship to it underground... it is natural that we experience anxiety, even guilt, at putting ourselves first. These feeling let us know we are taking action; they do not need to stop us.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.”

11. “As we move away from the old role in which we were helplessly entrapped as a victim, we make friends with the people who affirm us. Their enthusiasm about us mirrors the positive experience we are having.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.”

12. “I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself.”

13. “I sometimes continue to see myself in split ways; it causes me trouble and contributes to a lack of satisfaction with myself.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again... We shall have to stand for ourselves repeatedly for the rest of our lives. As we practice doing this, we come to greater ease... Eventually it may float over entirely into the positive realm – becoming only another chance to demonstrated our worthiness.”

14. “It is a childish notion that once established, our boundaries will never be transgressed again... We shall have to stand for ourselves repeatedly for the rest of our lives. As we practice doing this, we come to greater ease... Eventually it may float over entirely into the positive realm – becoming only another chance to demonstrated our worthiness.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a lifetime for that, we may never receive what we need. We choose instead to face the idea that from now on, we are going to take responsibility for caring for ourselves.”

15. “Though our childhood abuse left us feeling someone ought to make reparation to us, if we wait a lifetime for that, we may never receive what we need. We choose instead to face the idea that from now on, we are going to take responsibility for caring for ourselves.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities – it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.”

16. “In order to survive our youth, many of us became sensitized to which conditions we had to play to, to receive attention. No wonder we mistook this attention for love. We thought love came in finite quantities – it had to be competed for among siblings, or it had to be paid for with exacting dues.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.”

17. “I look upon the gift of my life as a wondrous journey.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.”

18. “I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.”

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Maureen Brady Quote: “I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.”

19. “I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.”

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