“The point of anything is not what you get from having done it, it's who you become from having gone through it.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You don't choose whether or not you'll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The only reason people don't do what they claim to want most is because there is something else they want a little bit more.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“The opposite of passion isn't settling for a lukewarm life, it's marrying it to logic that will actually get you where you want to go.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“You should thank the people who hurt you most in life because those relationships didn't actually hurt you, they showed you an unhealed part of yourself, a part that was preventing you from being truly loved.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Most people don't change until not changing is the less comfortable option.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“We are literally incapable of predicting an outcome that is out of the realm of what we've known previously. Rather than trying to seek 'better,' we seek 'the best of what we've known,' even if 'the best' is really just the solution to a problem we didn't need to create again.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“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.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“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.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“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.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“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.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“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.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Nothing is 'scary' to us unless some part of us also wants to understand it, knows we are a part of it, and feels as though it will become part of our experience.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Hunger is important. People don't thrive when they're fulfilled. They stagnate.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“If you're wondering what you should do with your life, it's likely that you're in the limbo between realizing you don't want what you once did and giving yourself permission to want what you want now.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com