“Learning to love yourself is, as odd as it may sound, learning to honor, respect, love and acknowledge the child in you.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Self-Love, Respect, Child
“Instead of thinking you are someone who is attractive and successful, learn to think of yourself as someone who is resilient, hungry for new experiences, capable of deeply loving others, and so on.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Self-Perception, Perception, Success, Love, Hunger
“If you are making a choice that you can only feel good about when you back up with a list of 'because,' you're not really listening to what you want.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Desire, Wanting Things, Choices, Change, Intuition
“A good life is not measured by what you do, it's about who you are. Not how many people you loved, but how much. It has nothing to do with how well things turn out or how seamlessly the plan is followed. It's about the bits of magic you stumble upon when you dive off path.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Magic, Happiness, A Good Life, Love
“The point of anything is not what you get from having done it, it's who you become from having gone through it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Change, Self-Development, Self-Concept, Growth
“What owns you in this life? Is it your desire for happiness? The past? The relationship that almost-was-but-ultimately-didn't Your body hang-up? Your fear? Your loneliness? Your lack of self-worth? Everybody has one thing that ultimately owns them, drives them, controls them at some visceral level.…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Control, Self-Sabotage
“Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don't choose whether or not you'll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Growth, Life, Suffering, Choice
“Figure out what you most need to heal within yourself by seeing what you most want to change in others.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Change, Anger, Self-Perception
“The only reason people don't do what they claim to want most is because there is something else they want a little bit more.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Passion, Logic, Growth, Creativity
“The opposite of passion isn't settling for a lukewarm life, it's marrying it to logic that will actually get you where you want to go.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Passion, Logic, Growth, Creativity
“The problems that are in front of you are actually behind you; they are cracks in your foundation that are holding you back. Stop trying to dismantle symptoms, go back and identify the causes.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Problems, The future, The Past, Perception
“Critically evaluating your life is supposed to facilitate living it, not the other way around.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Analyzing, Over-analyzing, Life, Living, Taking Action
“Trying to make sense of your life is trying to see if the old story checks out, if the person you once were would be happy with the life they lead today. You're looking for answers in people that don't exist.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Reflection, Identity, The Past, self
“You should thank the people who hurt you most in life because those relationships didn't actually hurt you, they showed you an unhealed part of yourself, a part that was preventing you from being truly loved.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Growth, Pain, hurt, Breakups
“Most people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Change, Growth, Personal Development, Comfort, Discomfort
“Anything that exists in your life exists because you created it. Anything that persists does so because you are feeding it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Pain, Prolonging Pain, Challenges
“Love and success are not expendable. Someone else's success doesn't make you less successful. Someone else receiving love or praise doesn't mean you aren't loved or praiseworthy. You are not only as good as you are better than someone else.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: comparison, Love, Success, Giving Love, Receiving Love
“It's never the love that hurts you, it's the attachment to the idea of what it's supposed to be.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Attachment, Pain
“You should give to others what you most need.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Connection, Empathy, Authenticity
“You should say how you feel before it stays in the darkness so long that it becomes the foundation on which the rest of your life is built.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Feelings, Love, Unrequited Love, Honesty
“I guarantee there is not one person you wouldn't love if you knew their true story.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Honesty, Falling In Love, Perspective
“You often do not know what's best for your life. Predicting your future does not make it more guaranteed to happy. It just closes you off. It gets you attached to an idea that you only want to be reality because you're attached to it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: The future, Happiness, Predicting The Future, Change, Being Open
“You have to become the kind of person who deserves the life you want.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Living, Worthiiness, Inspirational, Selfie Captions
“People aren't interested or attracted to just 'happy' and 'beautiful.' They're interested in people who are interested in things.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, beauty, Attraction, Personality
“Nobody really cares what you do with your life, so stop making choices as though they do.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Choices, Perceptions, Judgement, Judging Others
“The things that don't leave your head are not the ones that show you what's 'meant to be'; they're the things that show you what you're still not okay with on your own.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Change, Destiny, Perception, Self-Concept
“If your life is missing something you cannot place back into it, restructure. You will get nowhere dismantling the pieces with nothing to take their place.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Restructuring, Starting Over, Loss, Growth
“Whenever there is a problem in your life, there is a problem with how you are thinking, reacting or responding. Whatever you feel you are not receiving is a direct reflection of what you are not giving.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Life, Love, Giving, Receiving, Problems
“I don't think there are people crueler to one another more than people who really, really love each other. They see so much of themselves in one another that they simply cannot stand it and retaliate in all the same ways they are rejecting themselves!”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Love, Blame, Relationships, Cruelty
“Not every fear feeling or negative thought is an invitation to explore it to a resolutive end.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Pain, Thoughts, Negativity