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Brianna Wiest Quotes

Total quotes: 31
“Life is not a series of problems to be solved, it’s a journey that you should be fascinated by.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Life, Problem Solving, Life As A Journey, Inspirational
“Whenever you feel hopeless, all you need to do is go outside and realize that you have been molded into human form for some reason.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: hopeless, Human Life, Being human, purpose
“Because if everything were explained, there would be nothing left to figure out.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Science, Figuring Things Out, Know Everything?, Learning, Be Open, Openness
“You have to stop believing that you need other people’s permission to be okay with yourself. That however you do or don’t align with what other people value determines your worth. That however the world does or doesn’t show you kindness is a direct reflection of how much you deserve it. You have to be kind to yourself. Even, and probably most especially, when it seems least deserved.”
— Brianna Wiest, You Have To Be Kindest To Yourself When It Seems Least Deserved
Tagged: Permission, Self Worth, Your Value
“Your days are slipping by you, and every day you spend in the mediocre is another you miss in the extraordinary.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Life Is Passing You By, Stop Being Mediocre, Extraordinary, Life, Being human, You Have One Chance
“We all start as strangers, but we often forget that we choose who ends up a stranger too.”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Stranger, People Morph
“You do not need to schedule your hours, you need to schedule your attention. It is your energy, not your time, that is limited each day.”
— Brianna Wiest, Productivity
“Believe, because the best is possible. Prepare, because the worst is too.”
— Brianna Wiest, Strategies For When You Need To Think More Clearly About Something
“Bloom where you’re planted. Be aware of the greatness that you are and realize that without you, the seaming of this mysteriously interconnected world would cease to exist as it is. Hope is never gone, it’s just ignored.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Bloom, Growth, Greatness, Interconnected World, All One, Hope
“The most miraculous things in our lives are the ones that change how we see things, each other and ourselves. It’s the relinquishing that hope is not lost, for there is another way that life can be.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Miracle, Hope Is Not Lost
“When a Leo is falling in love, they’re as charismatic as ever, but they’re also looking for someone with whom they can share the life they love so much.”
— Brianna Wiest, How To Know Someone Is Beginning To Fall In Love With You, According To Their Zodiac Sign
Tagged: Leos, Horoscope, Zodiac, Falling In Love, Partners, Relationships
“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
“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
“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 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
“When sunlight shines through the trees, the interplay between light and leaves. The feeling of your skin on someone else’s. People who are funny without being mean. People who are deep without being negative. The mind fuck that is 'all is as it should be.'”
— Brianna Wiest, 33 Experiences We Don’t Have English Words For Yet
Tagged: Philosophy
“We are all just waiting for another universe to collide with ours, to change what we can’t ourselves. To fill us, to make us whole. It’s interesting how afterwards, we realize that the storm returns to calm, but the stars are always changed and we don’t choose whose collisions change us. ”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
Tagged: Waiting For The One, Universe, Align With Us
“Free yourself from the confines that bind you. Maybe you built steel bars around your heart because you thought they had to be there. You wanted to protect yourself from being hurt so badly again. Take them down. Walk out. This may be physical or it may be metaphorical. But either way, know that there’s nothing worse than not experiencing life for the fear of what it may bring.”
— Brianna Wiest, The Truth About Everything
Tagged: Free Yourself, Liberation, Finding Truth, Fear, Avoid Fear, Do It, Just Do It
“I don’t think writer’s block is what people think it is. When I feel ‘stuck’ or apathetic about what I’m working on, it almost always means I shouldn’t be doing it. The problem is either that I don’t have a clear idea of what I want to say, or I’m trying to write it in a way that is too far removed from how I would naturally speak or think.”
— Brianna Wiest
Tagged: How to be a writer, Writing
“Some of the most told stories are the ones that don’t end well, the ones that are beautiful because someone laid it all on the line, was brave and vulnerable and submitted to the human condition. If that’s your story, its time to stop running from it and start taking pride in the fact that you were strong enough to let love through.”
— Brianna Wiest, Sadness Is Just Part Of The Story
Tagged: Love, Pain, Sadness, Acceptance, Broken Heart, strength
“Getting the fuck over it does not mean you ignore your feelings. They are not the same thing. Getting the fuck over it means I see you, emotion that could have the power to devastate me and paralyze me for the day, or week, or year. And I am choosing to put my energy elsewhere. It does not mean you suppress your feelings, it means you acknowledge them, but the compulsion to choose to breathe life and attention into them no longer controls you. You are liberated. You are free. The tonic for being emotionally broken is building mental strength.”
— Brianna Wiest, Get The F*#k Over It
Tagged: The Art of Awareness, How To Think, Psychology, Philosophy
“Love is supposed to change you, and it will. This is how we determine the quality of a relationship: by the person we become when we're in it. People always say the opposite – that you should never change for someone else – but with the right person, you will evolve rapidly. The right person will show you the very best parts of you, and you'll want to be your best self for them. 

This is the kind of love worth choosing, worth sacrificing for: not that which accepts unconditionally, but which sees the best in you, and inspires you to be more, and more, and more. This is the kind of love you want to last a lifetime. The kind that you will get to the end of your days and think: I would be a fraction of the person I am had I not been with them. ”
— Brianna Wiest, A Fraction of the Whole
Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“We may not have been built for monogamy, but interestingly enough, it’s the one animalistic trait we aren’t always trying to transcend. We weren’t built to eat at tables or work in fluorescent-lit offices each day, we weren’t built to internalize shame or gamble or consume copious amounts of alcohol, but we do, because the very work of being human is in transcending our humanness. 

Our folklore and mythology and fairytales – the stories that deepen our lives with substance – are all tales of how we moved past what was inevitable and made ourselves into something more. Something lighter. Something infused with meaning and purpose. Some kind of race that knows the love of someone you commit to and the lust of someone you release an urge with are incomparable. At some level we know this is true of us all: that we are intended to be more than we are, and yet somehow, in doing that we realize we were always enough.”
— Brianna Wiest, Transcendence
Tagged: Philosophy, Love
“The things we lose are not losses – they are entryways. They are second chances. They are wake up calls. They are the world saying to us clearly and sharply: there is something else out there. And when it most feels like we're standing on the edge of some unknown abyss, we must recognize that we feel pain because we are holding ourselves back from what's next, rather than suffering over what we think someone has taken from us. ”
— Brianna Wiest, The Things You Lose Aren't Losses
Tagged: Philosophy, Poetry
“Imagine what you’ll lose when you gain everything you want. You'll grow up eventually, you'll find love beyond your current comprehension, you'll do work you're proud of, you'll make money. But what of those beautiful days you got to spend alone? What did you do with the sacred hours you had to yourself? Did you follow your hunger or did you numb it? What did you read and absorb and how did you learn to think and see differently? Were you ready for the love of your life, the opportunity of your dreams, the nights you'd no longer have to waste on your own? ”
— Brianna Wiest, Aloneness
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology
“You aren't letting go of a person, or a place, or even a thing – you're letting go of your thoughts about it, or what it would be. And learning how to let go of your thoughts is the most powerful thing there is. It's how you get over fear, loss, panic, pain, judgment, and all the rest. 

Everything exists in a constant cycle of gain and release. Find and lose. Use then purge. Everything. You aren't just letting go of one thing, and leaving your life an empty, bottomless abyss. You're just moving from one thing to the next, and if you quiet yourself enough, you'll be able to hear why. ”
— Brianna Wiest, Gain & Release
Tagged: The Art of Awareness, How To Think
“If you want to be happy, you need to stop chasing happiness. Happiness is a byproduct of doing things that are challenging, meaningful, beautiful and worthwhile. It is wiser to spend a life chasing knowledge, or the ability to think clearly and with more dimension, than it is to just chase what “feels good.” It is wiser to chase the kind of discomfort that only comes with doing something so profound and life-altering that you are knocked off your orbit. It is wiser to tip the scales over rather than balance things you don’t like only because you believe balance will make you “happy.” It is wiser to do things that are hard and make you feel vulnerable and raw than it is to avoid them because comfort makes you feel temporarily, fleetingly good. ”
— Brianna Wiest, Stop Chasing Happiness
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become
“It’s interesting to think about how we make people who used to be everything into nothing again. How we learn to forget. How we force forgetting. What we put in place of them in the interim. The dynamics afterward always tell you more than what the relationship did – grief is a faster teacher than joy – but what does it mean when you cycle out to being strangers again? You never really stop knowing each other in that way. Maybe there’s no choice but to make them someone different in your mind, not the person who knew your daily anxieties and what you looked like naked and what made you cry and how much you loved them.”
— Brianna Wiest, How The People We Once Loved Become Strangers Again
“There is just as much value in the negative space. Not every second of your life has to be filled. A packed agenda is not success. Living to work as opposed to working to live is not a quality of life. Things are not split into ‘times in which you’re doing something that other people can quantify’ and ‘times you’re doing nothing.’ It’s all important. Your deepest revelations happen in silent moments with yourself. Being crowded with people and appointments and ideas and creative outpourings wouldn’t be so profound and stunning if there weren’t also moments of aloneness and nothingness and mental drought. The context of things matters just as much as the things do. The focal point of a piece of art wouldn’t exist without the negative space to frame it.”
— Brianna Wiest, How To Become The Kind Of Person Who Deserves The Life You Want
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Person You'll Become
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