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Brianna Wiest Quotes

Total quotes: 156
“Whenever there is a problem in your life, there is a problem with how you are thinking, reacting or responding. Whatever you feel you are not receiving is a direct reflection of what you are not giving.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Love, Giving, Receiving, Problems, Responding To Problems
“Nobody really cares what you do with your life, so stop making choices as though they do.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Choices, Perceptions, Judgement, Judging Others
“You learned early on that physical age is not synonymous with intuition, empathy, creativeness or general intelligence.”
— Brianna Wiest, 16 Difficult Things About Growing Up As An Old Soul
Tagged: Old Soul, Old Souls, Feelings, Empathy, Creativity
“If you want to change your beliefs, go out and have experiences that make them real to you.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Beliefs, Experiences, Change
“A lot of 'irrational' anxiety comes from subconsciously sensing something, yet not taking it seriously because it isn't logical.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Anxiety, Intuition, Logic, Sensing Things
“Understanding the fabric of resistance is the only way we can unstitch it.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Resistance, Resisting Happiness
“What are a few things you thought you would never get over while you were going through them? Why did they seem so insurmountable? How did you?”
— Brianna Wiest, 16 Questions That Will Show You Who You Are(And What You’re Meant To Do)
Tagged: Questions, Problems, issues
“The things you worry about are not random, they show you what you’re here to work toward.”
— Brianna Wiest, 23 One Sentence Reminders For Anyone Who Knows They Have A Greater Purpose In Life
Tagged: life advice, Worrying, Stress
“When all is said and done, people care far less about what you’ve accomplished than they do how you treat others.”
— Brianna Wiest, 23 One Sentence Reminders For Anyone Who Knows They Have A Greater Purpose In Life
Tagged: life advice, Success, accomplishments
“When our lives revolve around someone, they don’t just stop doing so even if all that’s left is some semblance of their memory.”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Stranger, Love, Memory
“The value is in the room. Each moment is pure potential. You either let your mind keep re-creating what it's known, or you start playing with the light.”
— Brianna Wiest
“If you’re meant to go from point A to point B, you will get there, eventually. But you can choose which way you go, and how you travel.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Journey, How You Travel, You Will Get There
“If you take a second to write down the little, otherwise insignificant things in your day that made you happy or upset you, you’ll notice some pretty telling patterns about yourself.”
— Brianna Wiest, 23 Reasonable Things Every Person Should Resolve To Do In The New Year
Tagged: On Keeping A Journal, Diary, Diares, Patterns, Discover Who You Are
“The silence between the notes makes the music. And lest we forget, the longer the silence, the more incredibly beautiful and powerful the music when it finally swells and the symphony goes on.”
— Brianna Wiest, Let It All Just Be Experience
Tagged: Life, Change
“Sometimes, caring about other people’s criticisms of us means that on some level, we agree with them. So grow – in every way you aspire to – because you do have someone to prove wrong, and that someone is you.”
— Brianna Wiest, This Year, Don’t Let People Shame You For Wanting To Grow
Tagged: Courage, strength, Self-Love
“If you want things to be okay, you have to be the one to make them okay. If you want things to be better, you have to be the one to make them better.”
— Brianna Wiest, 25 Uncomfortable Things You Have To Accept If You Ever Want To Be Truly Comfortable With Who You Are
Tagged: Bettering Yourself, Feeling Okay, H4D-54
“Perfectionists can actually use this impulse to their advantage. Their drive to do things better than anyone else can also translate into motivation to keep working on bettering something where others would have given up.”
— Brianna Wiest, The One Odd Trait Most Successful People Have That Is Often Confused For A Weakness
Tagged: Perfectionists, Success
“But if connection is so important, how can it be that it is so often overlooked, and that there are almost no resources available to teach people how to foster real connection in their lives?”
— Brianna Wiest, If Connection Is Our Core Human Need, Then Why Are We So Bad At It?
Tagged: connection to people, Connection, Psychology
“Every single time you tell a secret or important information to someone, if it’s interesting enough, they will tell their one person.”
— Brianna Wiest, How to Seem Like You Always Have Your Sh*t Together
Tagged: Productivity, Self-Worth, Secrets, having Your shit together
“When you consider doing something that you truly love and are invested in, you are going to feel an influx of fear and pain, mostly because it will involve being vulnerable.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Pain, Fear, Meaning
“Trying to change how you feel is like finding a road sign that points in the opposite direction of where you had intended to go and getting out to try to turn the sign, rather than the course of action.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Change, Feelings, emotions, Changing How You Feel, Positive Thinking, Taking Action, Self-Help
“We buoy between extremes: not caring about anything or caring so much about one thing it could break us all together.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: caring, Apathy, Emotion
“[Think about] how love would save your life if it were capable of doing such things (It is).”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, Life, Change
“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.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, Giving Love, Deserving Love, Loving Freely
“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, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Passion, Logic, Growth, Creativity
“The things that don't leave your head are not the ones that show you what's 'meant to be'; they're the things that show you what you're still not okay with on your own.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Change, Destiny, Perception, Self-Concept
“Nobody is honest and so nobody is finding anybody who loves them for them, because they aren't being who they are. They are only finding people who love their shells, which, as we all know, easily break.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, Honesty, Falling In Love
“The most symptomatic challenge we face in our daily lives is trying to mentally bridge the gaps between our coexisting truths.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Human Element
Tagged: Truth, first lines of books
“We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger too”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Stranger, Love, Memory
“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.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Best Boyfriends Know Little Gestures Mean More Than Anything Else
Tagged: Cool Guys, Good Boyfriends, H4D-27
“The more they want to experience with you, the more they’re interested.”
— Brianna Wiest, What Each Zodiac Sign Acts Like When They’re Secretly Falling In Love
Tagged: crushes, Attraction, H4D-16
“Your greatest happiness will not come from being comfortable, it will come from being useful.”
— Brianna Wiest, 23 One Sentence Reminders For Anyone Who Knows They Have A Greater Purpose In Life
Tagged: life advice, comfortable, useful
“You are writing for the reader, not for yourself.”
— Brianna Wiest, How To Write Posts That People Will Actually Read & Share
Tagged: Writing, Writing Tips
“The world teaches you to have dreams, to believe in them, to stand by them, to fight for them no matter what. It rarely tells you that, over time, some dreams will eclipse others, some will get replaced, others will fall into the recesses of your mind.”
— Brianna Wiest, This Year, Have Enough Courage To Allow Your Dreams To Change
Tagged: Dreams
“You are more than the sum of how others see you.”
— Brianna Wiest, Who You Are
Tagged: Shop Catalog
“Your mountain is the block between you and the life you want to live. Facing it is also the only path to your freedom and becoming. You are here because a trigger showed you to your wound, and your wound will show you to your path, and your path will show you to your destiny.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You
Tagged: self sabotage
“They usually have to accomplish quite a bit on their own before they find love – this is because old souls love deeply, and completely. To be given love too soon would keep them from the other important things they are here to do.”
— Brianna Wiest, 12 Reasons Why Old Souls Have Such A Hard Time Finding Love
Tagged: accomplishments, Love, Old Souls, Old Soul
“Defensiveness never precedes growth.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Defensiveness, Change, Growth, Intellect, Expanding Your Horizons
“Do you know why you don't have the things you once thought you wanted? Do you know why you're not the person you once thought you'd be? Because you don't want those things anymore. Not badly enough. If you did, you'd have and be them.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Change, Self-Concept, Wanting Things
“A good life is not measured by what you do, it's about who you are. Not how many people you loved, but how much. It has nothing to do with how well things turn out or how seamlessly the plan is followed. It's about the bits of magic you stumble upon when you dive off path.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Magic, Happiness, A Good Life, Love
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