“What owns you in this life? Is it your desire for happiness? The past? The relationship that almost-was-but-ultimately-didn't Your body hang-up? Your fear? Your loneliness? Your lack of self-worth? Everybody has one thing that ultimately owns them, drives them, controls them at some visceral level. It's the pattern that everything else is rooted in; it's the issue that crops up again and again. It's what you insatiably seek, then run away from, only to find you ran right into it. What owns you in this life makes up the majority of what you do, so you need to know what it is.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Life, Control, Self-Sabotage
Appears In: Quotes About Life, Quotes To Make You Smile
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