“The honest truth is that another person’s path to success is not ever going to fulfill you, and it’s probably the honest reason why your best efforts never quite seem to be good enough.”— Brianna Wiest, psiloveyou.xyz
“Deep down, I knew I was full of shit. I’d read comments on my work while actively sobbing and wondering what it might be like to throw myself in front of a bus.”— Amanda Richards, amandakater.substack.com
“What I think people intend to mean when they say ‘just be yourself’ isn’t don’t change rather, show up. Let me explain.”— MaryBeth Gronek, psiloveyou.xyz
“I don’t really have nothing serious I would say to 25-year-old me. It wasn’t that long ago, I’m kind of the same bitch, except I just have better hair.”— Lizzo, marieclaire.com
“When I told Howard that we should meet again in five years to see if we were meant to be together, I thought I was just being practical. My idea was less about romance than hedging our bets.”— Karen B. Kaplan, nytimes.com
“To be a grown-up is to be done growing up — as in, done with the part of life that requires parental supervision and support. You’re supposed to be able to survive on your own.”— Maureen O'Connor, thecut.com
“Maybe right now, you are being given a chance to reclaim your joy, to make it the most natural extension of who you are, to let it spill out of your words, and your laughter, and your tears — to let it be something you believe you are worthy of, to let it be something you believe you deserve.”— Bianca Sparacino, thoughtcatalog.com
“When I entered the industry, I thought that bloodletting was a natural result of publishers failing to evolve. I was horribly naive.”— Spencer Dukoff, cjr.org
“The only way I can quiet my brain is to accept that a path isn't one answer you've got to lock onto: it's your house and/or home.”— Anne T. Donahue, tinyletter.com
“If you are on the path to self-awareness and personal growth, criticism can provide you with very profound insights.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”— Mike McHargue, twitter.com
“I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them,…”— Joan Didion, amazon.com
“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
“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
“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
“Anxiety stems from shame. It is the idea that who you are or what you are doing is 'not right' - therefore eliciting a rush of energy designed to help you 'fix' or change it. You're suffering because there's nothing you can fix to make that urgent, panicked feeling go away. It's a mismanaged percept…”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“Hunger is important. People don't thrive when they're fulfilled. They stagnate.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com