Brianna Wiest

We say we want unconditional love and happiness, but we don’t behave as though we do. We want love and happiness when we get someone or something. Why? Because it puts the responsibility of choosing happiness, working on it, and toward it, on something else.

Spend a day without money.

You’re not anti-social, you’re selectively social.

A lot of friends.

Be mindful of what you eat. Consider what’s in it, don’t just count calories.

Is this issue going to matter in a year from now?

The only time we see the whole structure clearly is when we step away from it.

The knowledge that the sentiment, “you can be anything,” doesn’t mean, “you have to be everything.”

Enough confidence to no longer feel the need to justify what she eats, who she dates or what she wears, not only to other people, but to herself.

Respect your limitations.

An outward appearance that aligns with what other people deem appropriate and ideal.

Friendship anniversaries.

Get in a car and drive until you’re lost. Explore there.

God forbid anyone unfollow you on Twitter or Instagram, because you won’t sleep until you figure out who it was and why.

Intentions don’t waive pain.

You eventually have to stop basing your self-worth on the insecurities of others and start basing it on your own genuine convictions, no matter how long it takes for you to find them.

Maybe it’s just that we’re all at the centers of our own little universes, and sometimes they overlap with other people’s, and that small bit of intersection leaves some part of it changed.

Sharing your umbrella with a stranger.