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101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
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
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.
Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.
A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.
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.
Not every fear feeling or negative thought is an invitation to explore it to a resolutive end.
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.
You have to stop believing that you need other people's permission to be okay with yourself.
You cannot shame people into changing.
The people who could not love us back were never meant to.
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…
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.
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.
We avoid things that are too perfect. We destroy them, mentally or otherwise, if they are.
Happiness is something that we have to consciously choose; otherwise we'd create the reality that we subconsciously think we deserve.
If you had the life you think you want, what would tomorrow be like?
What you think others think is more important than what they actually think. It shows you to yourself.
Give yourself permission to want what you want now.
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.
Your soul knows what to do to heal itself; the challenge is just to let it.