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101 Brianna Wiest Quotes That Will Change The Way You Think

For when you need a shift in perspective.
Heidi Priebe
November 28, 2016
“When things don't work out the way you want them to, you think you've failed only because you didn't re-create something you perceived as desirable. In reality, you likely created something better, but foreign, and your brain misinterpreted it as 'bad.'”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Perception, Happiness, Good, Bad
“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
“Not wanting to do something would make you feel indifferent about it. Fear = interest.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Indifference, Fear, Interest, Growth
“The pattern of unnecessarily creating crises in your life is actually an avoidance technique. It distracts you from actually having to be vulnerable or held accountable for whatever it is you're afraid of. You're never upset for the reason you think you are. At the core of your desire to create a problem is simply the fear of being who you are and living the life you want.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: vulnerability, Honesty, Creating Problems, Self-Help, Growth, Fear
“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
“If you genuinely disliked something, you would simply disengage with it.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: like, Dislike, Subconscious Choices, Engagement, Disengagement
“You're seeing issues you struggled with as a kid reappear in your adult life, and while on the surface this may seem like a matter of not having overcome them, it really means you are becoming conscious of why you think and feel so you can change it.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Consciousness, Awareness, Self-awareness, Growth, Growing Up
“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
“Healing is really just letting yourself feel. It is unearthing your traumas and embarrassments and losses and allowing yourself the emotions that you could not have in the moment that you were having those experiences. ”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Pain, Healing, Emotion, Feeling
“Your numbness isn't feeling nothing, it's feeling everything and never having learned to process anything at all.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Feeling, Emotion, Processing Emotion, Pain, Numbness
“Your tiredness is your resistance to who you are, the person you actually want to be. ”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Tiredness, Exhaustion, Mental Exhaustion, Resistance, Pain, Identity, Change
“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
“As soon as our circumstances extend beyond the amount of happiness we're accustomed to and comfortable feeling, we unconsciously begin to self-sabotage. We are programmed to seek what we've known. So, even though we think we're after happiness, we're actually trying to find whatever we're most accustomed to, and we project that on whatever actually exists, over and over again.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Happiness, Self-Sabotage, Comfort, Change, Resisting Happiness
“Everybody has a limited tolerance for feeling good. When things go beyond that limit, we sabotage ourselves so that we can return to our comfort zones.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Happiness, Comfort, Change, Growth, Self-Help, Self-Sabotage
“We hear our instincts, we just don't listen. This is the single most common root of discomfort: the space between knowing and doing.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Instincts, Intuition, Discomfort, actions
“Happy people may lose everything they have but people who never choose to fully step into their lives never have anything at all.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Happiness, Loss, Losing Happiness, Taking A Chance
“There are three primary form of happiness. Just as removing one of the primary colors would make many others impossible, without any one of these happinesses, it is almost impossible to thrive.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Happiness, Thriving, Joy
“Many of us are colorblind to the joys and complexities of our lives and it is because we are missing a part of the foundation.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Happiness, Joy, Avoiding Our Feelings
“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
“You will never be ready for the things that really matter.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Being Ready, Taking A Chance, Moving On
“It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking rather than to think your way into a new way of acting.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Thinking, Acting, actions, Change, Making Change, Self-Direction
“[Think about] what you subconsciously love about the 'problems' you struggle to get over. Nobody holds onto something unless they think it does something for them.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Problems, Struggle
“[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
“Love is not something other people can give you.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, emotions, Relationships, Self-Love
“People cannot transmute emotions, which is interesting to consider when you realize how utterly consumed the human race is with the concept of getting other people to love us.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Emotion, Love, Self-Love, Self-Esteem, Self-Concept, Relationships
“When we think other people love us, we give ourselves permission to feel love.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, Self-Love, Relationships, Self-Concept, Self-Esteem
“If you think love is something that exists anywhere but within your own mind and heart, you will never have it.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, Self-Love, Relationships, Self-Concept, Perception
“Most people assume that when they have someone who loves them, they'll think they're worthy of love. When they have money, they'll have a different attitude about it. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Your mind creates; it is not created.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Love, Money, The Law Of Attraction Kind Of, Worthiness
“Defensiveness never precedes growth.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Defensiveness, Change, Growth, Intellect, Expanding Your Horizons
“You will not be ready when the love of your life comes along. You also probably won't be ready when you see the listing for your dream job or to buy a house or maybe have a kid or maybe quit that job and try to write the book you keep thinking about or get sick or lose a relative or die yourself. If you wait on the feeling of 'readiness' you'll be waiting forever and worse, you'll miss the best of what's in front of you.”
— Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
Tagged: Waiting, Being Ready, Life, Love, Opportunity, Taking A Chance