Brianna Wiest

1. She’s not necessarily insecure. Worrying about whether or not she’s loved isn’t always a product of low self-esteem, it’s also what happens when you acknowledge the reality that love does not always last, and often unexpectedly so. 2.

Selfishness is only considering your own needs. Self-love is knowing your needs need to be met before you can truly care for other people’s.

I know now that being afraid of things going wrong is not the way to make them go right. Releasing that fear is knowing there’s no “right” way for things to go.

The ideal job you’re still waiting for.

They ask the same questions they did when they were first getting to know one another.

You stop talking about people, and start talking about goals, ideas and plans.

You begin to realize how few people you actually like.

You cannot have a deep heart and not have an equally deep intellect, or so the saying goes.

Heartworm: a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.

The color you wear most often.

Feelings are not facts.

“You’re not responsible for that which you do unintentionally.”

There are ways to consciously become a more likeable person without ever having to sacrifice who you really are. There’s a way to be self-aware and authentic.

Love is something you create, not an emotion that arises out of thin air.

You feel “lost,” which is just another way of saying you’re detaching from your old ideas about what your life should be, or what the future should hold, and so on.

Make one healthier food choice each day. Just one.

Happy people spend time outside just for the sake of it.

They treat everyone equally, and do not use someone’s attitude as an indicator of whether or not they should alter their behavior around them. After all: character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.