“If it's what you really want, it will give you a feeling of 'yes.' Trust your 'yes' feelings.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Intuition, Trusting Yourself, Life, Change, knowing yourself
“Make sure you're living more than you're thinking about living.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Personal Development, Growth, Over-Thinking
“Anxiety stems from shame. It is the idea that who you are or what you are doing is 'not right' - therefore eliciting a rush of energy designed to help you 'fix' or change it. You're suffering because there's nothing you can fix to make that urgent, panicked feeling go away. It's a mismanaged percept…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Anxiety, Shame, Self-Development, Personal Growth, Perception
“Nothing is 'scary' to us unless some part of us also wants to understand it, knows we are a part of it, and feels as though it will become part of our experience.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Fear, scary, Change, Growth, Self-Development
“In fearing that happiness won't last forever, we lose it. In fearing that grief will last forever, we create it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Fear, Grief, Self-Sabotage
“Hunger is important. People don't thrive when they're fulfilled. They stagnate.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Growth, Change, Development, Personal Growth, Hunger
“If you're wondering what you should do with your life, it's likely that you're in the limbo between realizing you don't want what you once did and giving yourself permission to want what you want now.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Growth, Personal Growth, Limbo
“You owe nothing to your younger self. You are not responsible for the person you once thought you'd be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Growth, Change, Growing Up, Self-Concept
“Do you know why you don't have the things you once thought you wanted? Do you know why you're not the person you once thought you'd be? Because you don't want those things anymore. Not badly enough. If you did, you'd have and be them.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Self-Concept, Wanting Things
“You cannot save up your happiness; you can either feel it in the moment or you miss it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Joy
“You will not be ready when the love of your life comes along. You also probably won't be ready when you see the listing for your dream job or to buy a house or maybe have a kid or maybe quit that job and try to write the book you keep thinking about or get sick or lose a relative or die yourself. If…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Waiting, Being Ready, Life, Love, Opportunity
“Defensiveness never precedes growth.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Defensiveness, Change, Growth, Intellect, Expanding Your Horizons
“Most people assume that when they have someone who loves them, they'll think they're worthy of love. When they have money, they'll have a different attitude about it. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Your mind creates; it is not created.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Money, The Law Of Attraction Kind Of, Worthiness
“We are literally incapable of predicting an outcome that is out of the realm of what we've known previously. Rather than trying to seek 'better,' we seek 'the best of what we've known,' even if 'the best' is really just the solution to a problem we didn't need to create again.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Self-Sabotage, Problems, Change, Growth, Personal Growth
“Everybody has a limited tolerance for feeling good. When things go beyond that limit, we sabotage ourselves so that we can return to our comfort zones.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Comfort, Change, Growth, Self-Help
“Everything in your life does one of three things: shows you to yourself, heals a part of yourself or lets you enjoy a part of yourself.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Growth, Change, Personal Growth, Development
“When people care most about how their lives look is when they're most closed off to how their lives feel.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Perception, Social Media
“The things that make us the most jealous or envious are usually the things that we feel we're not living up to within ourselves.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Jealousy, Envy, Growth, Personal Development, Potential
“If you really believed you didn't have control over something, you'd accept it as a matter of fact. What do you struggle to accept that you have 'no control' over? What part of you makes you think or hope otherwise?”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Control, Hope, Acceptance, Change, Finality
“Potential unrealized becomes pain.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Growth, Self-Development, Potential, Unrealized Potential
“When you want to pity yourself over how little love you're getting, I ask you to stop and consider: How much are you giving?”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Giving Love, Deserving Love, Loving Freely
“The pain of not having love is the pain of your heart being closed.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Pain, Closing Yourself Off To Love, Loneliness, Accepting Love
“You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Loss, The future, Mourning, Moving On
“Let your idea of yourself evolve.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Identity, Evolution, Change, Growth, Personal Growth
“When you have something more important to work toward, the obsession with little, made-up problems will quickly dissolve.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Obsessiveness, Dreaming Big, Change, Moving Forward
“Imagine speaking with your oldest, wisest, most optimal future self. What you're doing is tapping deep into your subconscious. Let your choices be guided by the person you hope to become.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: The future, Self-Perception, Wisdom, Advice, Life
“When you're lost, you're also free.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Being Lost, Freedom, lost, Change, Quarter-Life Crisis
“If you're operating on a scarcity mindset, you'll always be unhappy, no matter what you have or get.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Scarcity, abundance, Allowing Happiness, Joy
“Give yourself permission to feel okay. This is why we love when other people love us - because it lets us flip the mental switch that gives us permission to be happy, proud, excited or content.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Self-Love, Contentment, Permission, Pride
“Love magnifies and brings clarity to whatever is most present in your life. So if the things that are most present are self-doubt, lostness, insecurity, etc., you will only have more and more of that.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Clarity, Relationships, Healthy Love