Top 120 Brianna Wiest Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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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102. “When we feel most stuck, it is often because we are trying to decipher who we really are by piecing together images we assume others have of us. What we don’t realize is that there is not just one, singular version of us that exists. There’s our experience of ourselves, and then the kaleidoscope of ways we are perceived by others. When we spend all of our lives trying to manage those perceptions, we become completely lost within them.”

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103. “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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104. “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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105. “Make a list of all the imperfect people you’ve known in your life who have had love. Who have had romantic partners and best friends and jobs you could only ever dream of. Make a list of all the people who are conventionally unattractive and spiritually adrift and imperfect and all the things each one of them had despite being that way. Make it your own personal proof that you do not need to be perfect to be good enough.”

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106. “Make your life a safe haven in which only people that have the capacity to care and listen and connect are allowed. You are not responsible for saving people.”

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107. “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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108. “The ways in which your current situation – though perhaps unplanned or unwanted – could be the path to the place you’ve actually always wanted to be, if only you’d begin to think of it that way.”

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109. “I am entitled to my own idea of myself.”

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

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111. “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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112. “Happiness is not experiencing something else; it’s continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.”

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113. “In fact, crying at appropriate times is one of the biggest signs of mental strength, as people who are struggling often find it difficult to release their feelings and be vulnerable.”

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114. “Without breaks, faults, and gaps, nothing could grow and nothing would become.”

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115. “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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116. “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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117. “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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118. “You are allowed to have everything you want.”

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119. “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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120. “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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121. “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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122. “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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123. “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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124. “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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125. “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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126. “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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127. “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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128. “It’s not about following passion; it’s about following purpose passionately.”

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129. “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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130. “Hold yourself to your standard.”

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131. “Anything other than ideal is not failure. It’s life.”

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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. “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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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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