Brianna Wiest

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.

They care more about being themselves than buying into trends.

They differentiate choosing a feeling and choosing an action.

These are the simplest facts of love. Love is not supposed to hurt you more than it heals you. The right person makes the timing right. Indecision is a decision, and that decision is no.

Of the 12 archetypes Carl Jung identified, the “wounded healer” is perhaps one of the best known. It is the idea that those who seek to help others are doing so because they are, in turn, helping themselves.

1. They do not believe every feeling they have means something. They don’t assign value to everything they feel. They know that conviction doesn’t make something true. 2. They aren’t threatened by not being right.