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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

by Brianna Wiest, KJ Parish

Over the past few years, Brianna Wiest has gained renown for her deeply moving, philosophical writing. This new compilation of her published work features pieces on why you should pursue purpose over passion, embrace negative thinking, see the wisdom in d

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“Brianna’s essays have a kind of mind-cleansing effect on the reader and the book cover reflects this with a completely noise-free, yet approachable/human feeling aesthetic.”

— KJ Parish, fontsinuse.com

“If you take the first step today, you have already changed your life. If you are willing to see your life change, it is already different.”

— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com

Tagged: Change, habits

“Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.”

— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com

Tagged: Inspirational, Growth, Goals, Making Your Dreams A Reality, Success

“A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: In Praise of Routine, procrastination, Getting Stuff Done

“The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Hate/Love, Who We Are, Identity, Quote of the Moment, Deep

“Not every fear feeling or negative thought is an invitation to explore it to a resolutive end.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Fear, Pain, Thoughts, Negativity

“People's opinions, especially negative ones, largely stem from what they know they don't have and can't do. You eventually have to stop basing your self-worth on the insecurities of others.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Self-Worth, Self-Esteem, Perception, Jugement

“You have to stop believing that you need other people's permission to be okay with yourself.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Permission, Self-Esteem, Self-Love

“You cannot shame people into changing.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Shame, Change

“The people who could not love us back were never meant to.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, Destiny

“All hatred is self-hatred. This is why we become so goddamned heartbroken. We cannot lose people; we can only lose ourselves in an idea of them. We decided how we felt about ourselves through them - for better or for worse - so when we perceive that their mindset changes from loving us to loving som…”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Hatred, Self-hatred, Self-Sabotage, Co-dependency

“Happy people are not people who 'feel good' all the time; they are the people who are able to be guided by their negative emotions rather than paralyzed by them.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Acceptance, Emotional Intelligence

“The little voice that's telling you the story of your life, has to let go of the old chapters to genuinely write new ones.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Living, Life Story, Moving On, Moving Forward

“We avoid things that are too perfect. We destroy them, mentally or otherwise, if they are.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Choice, Self-Sabatoge, Perfection

“Happiness is something that we have to consciously choose; otherwise we'd create the reality that we subconsciously think we deserve.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Choice, Consciousness, Reality

“If you had the life you think you want, what would tomorrow be like?”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Visualizing Success, Future, Change, Life

“What you think others think is more important than what they actually think. It shows you to yourself.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Perception, Judgement, Fearing Judgement

“Give yourself permission to want what you want now.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire, Being Present, Permission

“The feeling of being 'lost' isn't what happens when you go off-path, it's when you forfeit control. It's what happens when you don't want to accept the course of events that have unfolded. Being found again is a matter of owning what happened to you and continuing to write the story.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Healing, Pain, Soul, Growth

“Your soul knows what to do to heal itself; the challenge is just to let it.”

— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com

Tagged: Healing, Pain, Soul, Growth, Inspirational