Latest Quotes

“If you take a second to write down the little, otherwise insignificant things in your day that made you happy or upset you, you’ll notice some pretty telling patterns about yourself.”

— Brianna Wiest, 23 Reasonable Things Every Person Should Resolve To Do In The New Year

“With him I felt trapped, branded, held, and beloved. Like a daughter.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”

— Mary Oliver, Mysteries, Yes

“We all start as strangers, but we often forget that we choose who ends up a stranger too.”

— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again

“You have to stop believing that you need other people’s permission to be okay with yourself. That however you do or don’t align with what other people value determines your worth. That however the world does or doesn’t show you kindness is a direct reflection of how much you deserve it. You have to…”

— Brianna Wiest, You Have To Be Kindest To Yourself When It Seems Least Deserved

“Life is not a series of problems to be solved, it’s a journey that you should be fascinated by.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“Your days are slipping by you, and every day you spend in the mediocre is another you miss in the extraordinary.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“The most miraculous things in our lives are the ones that change how we see things, each other and ourselves. It’s the relinquishing that hope is not lost, for there is another way that life can be.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“Free yourself from the confines that bind you. Maybe you built steel bars around your heart because you thought they had to be there. You wanted to protect yourself from being hurt so badly again. Take them down. Walk out. This may be physical or it may be metaphorical. But either way, know that the…”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“If you’re meant to go from point A to point B, you will get there, eventually. But you can choose which way you go, and how you travel.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“Bloom where you’re planted. Be aware of the greatness that you are and realize that without you, the seaming of this mysteriously interconnected world would cease to exist as it is. Hope is never gone, it’s just ignored.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“Whenever you feel hopeless, all you need to do is go outside and realize that you have been molded into human form for some reason.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.”

— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything

“Stop hiding from it and let the joy you wait for catch up with you now.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson, Daily Haiku On Love

“WE need to swap the Romantic view for a tragic (and at points comedic) awareness that every human will frustrate, anger, annoy, madden and disappoint us — and we will (without any malice) do the same to them. There can be no end to our sense of emptiness and incompleteness.”

— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”

— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

“Don’t trust people who don’t support you as you try to grow into a more mature and self-realized person. Don’t confide in people who aren’t as interested in your triumphs as they are in your downfalls.”

— Danielle Mertina, via Tumblr

“Laying verses though I'd rather lay with you.”

— Schoolboy Q, Studio

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to de…”

— Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Philosophers In Trouble

“Embrace a philosophy of pessimism. Every human will disappoint you, and you'll do the same to them.”

— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person