Top 120 Brianna Wiest Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “When you regulate your daily actions, you deactivate your “fight or flight” instincts because you’re no longer confronting the unknown.”

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102. “Happiness is not a rush of positive emotion elicited by random events that affirm the way you think something should go. Not sustainable happiness, anyway. The real stuff is the product of an intentional, mindful, daily practice, and it begins with choosing to commit to it.”

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103. “You are your struggles. You say, “I am an anxious person” rather than “I sometimes feel anxiety.” You identify with your problems, which is likely a huge reason why you can’t overcome them.”

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104. “This relationship affected you more than you are letting yourself believe. The ending hurt you more than you acknowledged, and you need to process that. Your continued interest in this person means there’s something about the relationship that is still unresolved, and it is probably some kind of closure or acceptance that you need to find for yourself.”

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105. “They never overgeneralize other people through their behaviors. They don’t use “you always” or “you never” to illustrate a point. Likewise, they root their arguments in statements that begin with “I feel” as opposed to “you are.”

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106. “The way to stop hate is to stop hating. Be better. Never stop seeking the extraordinary. Never fail to forget your role as a creator of your own life. You choose tomorrow, and you create what is. Make sure it’s what you want. Be happy. I love you. Find other people that love you as well. Be with them.”

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107. “You’re one of those people who tries to find comfort in overanalyzing old things to make more sense of them, when in reality, complexity is a product of insecurity, and insecurity a product of being unable to accept the simple reality of the situation.”

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108. “Read. If you don’t read, it’s not because you don’t like reading; it’s because you haven’t picked up anything that interests you. What you read now will affect the person you’re going to be for decades to come. Read articles and essays online about how people cope with their fears – in it you will find camaraderie, how many strangers feel just as you do. Read about things you don’t understand, that scare you and fascinate you. Just read, damnit.”

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109. “You will know that it’s time to take your power back when there is no other viable choice, because in the aftermath of loss, you discovered that you unraveled your own existence so that nothing could be taken from you again.”

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110. “Happiness, if you think about it, is the biggest conundrum we face. The pursuit of it is why we do basically everything that we do, and yet, none of that effort is necessary: it’s the simplest choice of changing our state of mind.”

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111. “The idea that perhaps the current problem in your life is not the problem, but that your perception is skewed, or you aren’t thinking of solutions as much as you are focusing on your discomfort.”

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112. “It’s no longer about the great ideas you had about how to change your business; it’s about whether or not you did.”

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113. “Your old self is no longer suited to manage the life you have today, and so they must transform into who you are becoming now.”

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114. “You’re resentful of whomever you think is responsible for your pain, or your lack of success, or your inability to choose.”

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115. “Nobody cries at a funeral because the world will be missing out on another pretty face. They cry because the world is missing another heart, another soul, another person. Don’t wait until it’s too late to focus on what will actually matter: creating something that lasts far beyond your body.”

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116. “You have time to do something you enjoy, even if “what you enjoy” is sitting on the couch and ordering dinner and watching Netflix.”

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117. “If we believe that we’re unworthy of love, we need the idea of a loving, doting partner who affirms how perfect we are to correct it. Without understanding that we want that love to fix something in us, we just think we desperately want love because we’re romantic, or because happy lives do not exist without it. But the people who are conscious of why they desire something are able to choose wants that are not based in solving a problem, but in something more genuine and healthy.”

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118. “What you learn and who you become is more important than how you temporarily feel.”

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119. “The idea of types and standards are proof that we’re just looking for somebody to play a role. Heartbreak is the aftermath of when somebody steps out of the very specific notion you had of them.”

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120. “To trust yourself means that you are no longer content to lodge your soul in the circumstances that have long stopped serving you.”

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121. “The people you smiled at on the street this morning, the people whom you text regularly, the family you could stand to visit more – all the little bits of genuine human connection that you overlook because they’ve become givens.”

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122. “Bad feelings should not always be interpreted as deterrents. They are also indicators that you are doing something frightening and worthwhile.”

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123. “Your routine could be traveling to a different country every month. It could be being routinely un-routine. The point is not what the routine consists of, but how steady and safe your subconscious mind is made through repetitive motions and expected outcomes.”

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124. “We heal when we learn how to adjust how we show up, not how we change what we show up to.”

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

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126. “You’re beginning to realize that your thoughts create your experience, and it’s often not until we’re pushed to our wits’ end that we even try to take control of them – and that’s when we realize that we were in control all along.”

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127. “What your subconscious mind might want you to know: You are not too broken to find someone who actually wants you, and when you begin to recognize that you are worthy of being committed to, you’ll start choosing partners who do just that.”

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128. “Maybe the kind of success you’re really hungry for is to feel at peace each day, or making your life about travel instead of work.”

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129. “The obsessive desire for a passionate relationship is usually a reflection of a lack of love for oneself. The manic need to pursue a passionate career is rooted in an intense unhappiness with present reality. They are a series of soothing thoughts and deflection methods and escape routes: The monster everyone’s running from, of course, is themselves.”

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130. “You’ll start to understand that having self-doubt is human. Irrational fears are, too. There’s no part of this that’s weird or strange or wrong. It’s simply nature. But if we want to step beyond it, we have to reach beyond it and start choosing. Choosing what we consume, how we structure our days, and what we give our time to. What we assign value and meaning to, and how much.”

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131. “A quick cheat sheet for you: The heart will tell you what; the mind will tell you how. Let them stay in their corners of expertise.”

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132. “Guilt is often an emotion we carry from childhood and then project onto current circumstances when we felt as though we were burdens to those around us.”

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133. “So many people get caught up in allowing the past to define them or haunt them simply because they have not evolved to the place of seeing how the past did not prevent them from achieving the life they want, it facilitated it. This doesn’t mean to disregard or gloss over painful or traumatic events, but simply to be able to recall them with acceptance and to be able to place them in the storyline of your personal evolution.”

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134. “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.”

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