“If you go on living as though other people are required to give you love, you will never actually experience it. If you go on living as though love is something that is always required of you, you will find it in everything.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Giving Love, Deserving Love, Loving Freely
“The heart will tell you what; the mind will tell you how.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: INFP, ENFP, Logic, Emotion, heart
“When things don't work out the way you want them to, you think you've failed only because you didn't re-create something you perceived as desirable. In reality, you likely created something better, but foreign, and your brain misinterpreted it as 'bad.'”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Perception, Happiness, Good, Bad
“If you want to change your beliefs, go out and have experiences that make them real to you.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Beliefs, Experiences, Change
“When you consider doing something that you truly love and are invested in, you are going to feel an influx of fear and pain, mostly because it will involve being vulnerable.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Fear, Meaning
“Your soul knows what to do to heal itself; the challenge is just to let it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Healing, Pain, Soul, Growth, Inspirational
“The pattern of unnecessarily creating crises in your life is actually an avoidance technique. It distracts you from actually having to be vulnerable or held accountable for whatever it is you're afraid of. You're never upset for the reason you think you are. At the core of your desire to create a pr…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: vulnerability, Honesty, Creating Problems, Self-Help, Growth
“Not wanting to do something would make you feel indifferent about it. Fear = interest.”— Brianna Wiest, imdb.comTagged: Indifference, Fear, Interest, Growth
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Consciousness, Awareness, Self-awareness, Growth, Growing Up
“A lot of 'irrational' anxiety comes from subconsciously sensing something, yet not taking it seriously because it isn't logical.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Intuition, Logic, Sensing Things
“Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses and allowing yourself the emotions that you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Healing, Emotion, Feeling
“Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Feeling, Emotion, Processing Emotion, Pain, Numbness
“People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Emotion, Love, Self-Love, Self-Esteem, Self-Concept
“When we think other people love us, we give ourselves permission to feel love.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Self-Love, Relationships, Self-Concept, Self-Esteem
“If you think love is something that exists anywhere but within your own mind and heart, you will never have it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Self-Love, Relationships, Self-Concept, Perception
“Love is not something other people can give you.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, emotions, Relationships, Self-Love
“[Think about] how love would save your life if it were capable of doing such things (It is).”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Life, Change
“[Think about] what you subconsciously love about the 'problems' you struggle to get over. Nobody holds onto something unless they think it does something for them.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Problems, Struggle
“It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking rather than to think your way into a new way of acting.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Thinking, Acting, actions, Change, Making Change
“You will never be ready for the things that really matter.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Being Ready, Taking A Chance, Moving On
“Understanding the fabric of resistance is the only way we can unstitch it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Resistance, Resisting Happiness
“Many of us are colorblind to the joys and complexities of our lives and it is because we are missing a part of the foundation.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy, Avoiding Our Feelings
“If you genuinely disliked something, you would simply disengage with it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: like, Dislike, Subconscious Choices, Engagement, Disengagement
“There are three primary form of happiness. Just as removing one of the primary colors would make many others impossible, without any one of these happinesses, it is almost impossible to thrive.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Thriving, Joy
“Happy people may lose everything they have but people who never choose to fully step into their lives never have anything at all.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Loss, Losing Happiness, Taking A Chance
“We hear our instincts, we just don't listen. This is the single most common root of discomfort: the space between knowing and doing.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Instincts, Intuition, Discomfort, actions
“As soon as our circumstances extend beyond the amount of happiness we're accustomed to and comfortable feeling, we unconsciously begin to self-sabotage. We are programmed to seek what we've known. So, even though we think we're after happiness, we're actually trying to find whatever we're most accus…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Self-Sabotage, Comfort, Change, Resisting Happiness
“Trying to change how you feel is like finding a road sign that points in the opposite direction of where you had intended to go and getting out to try to turn the sign, rather than the course of action.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Change, Feelings, emotions, Changing How You Feel, Positive Thinking
“Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Tiredness, Exhaustion, Mental Exhaustion, Resistance, Pain
“If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Loss, Pain, Love, Worthiness, Feeling Worthy