“The whole problem is that OCD makes you incapable of controlling your attention. While nobody has power over what thoughts pop up in their heads, they usually do have autonomy over whether or not they focus on them. This is not the case with OCD.”Tagged: ocd, Thoughts, Attention
“It’s not always about repetitive actions, counting steps, or making sure things are super clean – the classic signs of OCD. It’s more often about not being able to let go of a thought or fear, and then taking extreme measures to resolve the problem.”Tagged: ocd, actions, Steps
“When all is said and done, people care far less about what you’ve accomplished than they do how you treat others.”Tagged: life advice, Success, accomplishments
“Your greatest happiness will not come from being comfortable, it will come from being useful.”Tagged: life advice, comfortable, useful
“The things you worry about are not random, they show you what you’re here to work toward.”Tagged: life advice, Worrying, Stress
“Old souls are often born into families who don’t understand them. This, of course, is a tremendous growing tool (and really, only fellow old souls will ever ‘get’ each other fully) but it makes for a tumultuous upbringing. Those formative years then end up impacting their adult relationships a lot…”Tagged: Old Souls, Family, Misunderstood
“Old souls have the easiest time becoming over-workers, almost feeling guilty if they don’t use all of the energy they have to create.”Tagged: Old Souls, Workaholid, Overworking
“Old souls are healers, and sometimes don’t know when to draw the line between what’s their responsibility to take on, and what’s not.”Tagged: Old Souls, Healers, Giving
“Your soulmate is really this: the person who brings out your inner child. The person who makes you feel so truly safe that the kid inside you can come out.”Tagged: soulmates, Inner Child, H4D-15, Love
“The more they want to experience with you, the more they’re interested.”Tagged: crushes, Attraction, H4D-16
“If you don’t have that hustle, you’re not getting in, and you need to be able to do it every single day.”Tagged: Work Ethic, Writing
“When I was at Thought Catalog, we kind of had creative liberty that we could just write what we wanted, and that’s just what kept coming out. That’s just what I wanted to write about, what I was dealing with and what other people could maybe get something from.”Tagged: Writing, Publishing, Thought Catalog
“You become obsessed with people too quickly. It’s not that you’re gullible, it’s that you’re easily taken by their positive qualities and you love how other people make you feel.”Tagged: Obsessive, Gullible, H4D-26
“The best boyfriends aren’t the ‘cool guys,’ they aren’t the bros who are too detached to care about love. They’re the ones who want to try. The ones who would do for you everything that you’d do for them.”Tagged: Cool Guys, Good Boyfriends, H4D-27
“Live so death has nothing to steal. Leave everything on the table. Don’t hold back your thoughts, your love, your creativity for another day. That path leads you to becoming a fraction of the person you were meant to be.”Tagged: Brianna Wiest, Living Life To The Fullest, Life Advide, Growth
“Take a look at yourself and ask: If I stopped growing tomorrow, is this the person I would want to be for the rest of my life?”Tagged: Growth, Brianna Wiest, Contemplative
“If you tried to see the good in yourself as much as you do everyone else, you’d change your life forever.”Tagged: Positivity, Optimism, H4D-31
“Give yourself credit. You are doing so much better than you think you are. You are so much more accomplished than you know.”Tagged: Self-Love, Success, H4D-33
“If you are trying to be more opinionated than you are empathetic, you are not living up to your full potential.”Tagged: Empathy, Think pieces, News
“A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick.”Tagged: Self-Care, Culture, disease