Brianna Wiest Quotes

Focus on what does, and what will, matter: the things you won't always have. You will not have all of your family members around forever. You may not be in close proximity to a friend a few years down the line. You will never be right where you are again, and you will look back and wish you took advantage of everything right now has to offer.

You think you have forever, but you do not. It all happens, and it happens quickly. You are not waiting on another person, or the right timing, or for everything to fall into place. You are waiting to feel ready enough to exist within the questions, to not need every answer, and to know that this life does not come to us perfectly understood, but to be fully experienced, in every direction we can possibly reach.

Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.

They listen to hear, not respond. While listening to other people speak, they focus on what is being said, not how they are going to respond. This is also known as the meta practice of “holding space.

Start appreciating how rare and beautiful it is to even just have one close friend in life. Not everybody is so lucky.

The point of healing is not to return to a place where everything is perfect. Instead, it is to begin to develop the ability to respond to what's imperfect.

Every conscious thought you have either circles you back into the mental cycle you’re in, or it liberates you from it.

You change your life at the same pace you change the story you tell yourself about it

In a more cerebral context, if you consciously learn to regard the “problems” in your life as openings for you to adopt a greater understanding and then develop a better way of living, you will step out of the labyrinth of suffering and learn what it means to thrive.

You will be grateful things didn’t turn out the way you wanted. You will be grateful for what you struggle with once you get to the other side.

They don’t think that being fearful is a sign they are on the wrong path. The presence of indifference is a sign you’re on the wrong path. Fear means you’re trying to move toward something you love, but your old beliefs, or unhealed experiences, are getting in the way. (Or, rather, are being called up to be healed.)

Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands

I think we hold on tightest to the things that aren’t meant for us because at some level, we know they aren’t really ours. We’re always seeking the love we know we don’t have. We’re always trying to prove the things that are not entirely self-evident.

Happiness is not having the best of everything, but the ability to make the best of anything. Happiness is knowing you are doing what you can with what you were given. Happiness is not something that comes to you when every problem is solved and all things are perfectly in place, but in the shining silver linings that remind us the light of day is always there, if you slow down enough to notice.

What if, just for today, you did not worry just for tonight, you set aside your cares tomorrow you can worry you can worry about everything on your list you can worry for every hour you’re awake but what if just for today you decided you’d worry tomorrow and then you woke up tomorrow and did the same thing