Everything in your life does one of three things: shows you to yourself, heals a part of yourself or lets you enjoy a part of yourself.
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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
When people care most about how their lives look is when they're most closed off to how their lives feel.
The things that make us the most jealous or envious are usually the things that we feel we're not living up to within ourselves.
You can't quite make sense of what you're feeling and you realize that's because you're in the process of developing that skill.
If you really believed you didn't have control over something, you'd accept it as a matter of fact. What do you struggle to accept that you have 'no control' over? What part of you makes you think or hope otherwise?
What would be too good to believe if someone were to sit down and tell you what's coming next in your life?
Potential unrealized becomes pain.
When you want to pity yourself over how little love you're getting, I ask you to stop and consider: How much are you giving?
If you go on living as though other people are required to give you love, you will never actually experience it. If you go on living as though love is something that is always required of you, you will find it in everything.
The pain of not having love is the pain of your heart being closed.
Let your idea of yourself evolve.
We all have a tolerance for how 'good' we'll let ourselves feel, our 'upper limit.'
When you're lost, you're also free.
You're not upset about what you lost - you're upset about what you never really had the chance to have in the first place.
When you have something more important to work toward, the obsession with little, made-up problems will quickly dissolve.
If you're operating on a scarcity mindset, you'll always be unhappy, no matter what you have or get.
Give yourself permission to feel okay. This is why we love when other people love us - because it lets us flip the mental switch that gives us permission to be happy, proud, excited or content.
Imagine speaking with your oldest, wisest, most optimal future self. What you're doing is tapping deep into your subconscious. Let your choices be guided by the person you hope to become.
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.
If you believe you're the kind of person who can bear pain or loss, you will be the kind of person who can bear pain or loss. If you believe you're worthy of love, you will experience love when it comes.