Brianna Wiest

Joy will find you. It will find you when you least anticipate it. It will find you when you have all but given up hope that it still exists.

The truth is that what you’re looking for isn’t outside of you, but buried deep within.

You do not exist on a single schedule, your fate is not to arrive at each set point at precisely the second you think you should. That’s not what you’re here for. That’s not what this whole thing is about.

When it’s time to start over, you won’t know you’re at the start of a new beginning, because all it will feel like is an overwhelming end.

We don’t snap out of denial one day, we slowly come out of it in phases, and eventually, we arrive at acceptance that we weren’t happy before.

This means that you’re coming home to yourself.

The truth is that it is unhealthy to ignore our failures, shortcomings and weaknesses. It takes a strong heart, brave mind, and true soul to not only admit that you have them, but be willing to work on them, too.

The truth is that learning to love an imperfect person is also how we learn to love ourselves.

Your growth as a person is not contingent upon everything unfolding perfectly.

Maybe the most productive thing you can do right now is grant yourself a period of deep rest.

When we are young, and before we really have a sense of autonomy, our lives are governed by a process, a specific order.

There’s nothing that’s going to hold you back more than getting discouraged because your entire life doesn’t change in a week.

You’ve had less and still the sun shined every morning.

I know it’s easy to feel like it’s you against the world.

When we hit our breaking point and assume we are more lost than ever before, it’s not because everything has spontaneously gone wrong.

It matters what the people in your close circle think.

There is nothing more important than knowing what you want in life, and there is almost nothing that is more difficult to figure out. 

What they don’t tell you about healing is that it isn’t peaceful.