"101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think." by Brianna Wiest. This book is full of wisdom and insights that can help us see life from a new perspective. I've picked 40 of my favorite quotes that really stood out to me. I hope these quotes will inspire you, make you think differently, and perhaps even change the way you see the world.
1 “Everything is hard in some way. It’s hard to be in the wrong relationship. It’s hard to be in the right one. It’s hard to be broke and miserable, it’s hard to achieve your dreams. It’s hard to be stuck in the middle, not really feeling anything at all. Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You choose what’s worth it. You don’t choose whether or not you’ll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for.”
2 “The things you love about others are the things you love about yourself. The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.”
3 “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.”
4 “How you judge other people. What you first reach to insult someone with—especially when it’s physical—says infinitely more of you than them.”
5 “Loving yourself is letting yourself be loved, too.”
6 “Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them. More is not better. Happiness is not experiencing something else; it's continually experiencing what you already have in new and different ways.”
7 “What you focus on expands.”
8 “The love you really want is your own. What you’re seeking in someone else is what you aren’t giving to yourself. What angers you is what you aren’t accepting and healing; what gives you joy and hope is what you already have within you.”
9 “you are not in the world; the world is in you.”
10 “What you would say if you could tell your younger self just one thing.”
11 “The problem is not the problem. The problem is how you think about the problem.”
12 “Take a nap. Seriously, wrap yourself in a balnket and go to sleep for 20 minutes. It's like hitting the "refresh" button on your brain.”
13 “The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.”
14 “Lots and lots of red will never make blue. Pleasures will never make you whole.”
15 “The way to change your life is to change the way you think, and the way to change the way you think is to change what you read.”
16 “Life did not get easier; you got smarter.”
17 “Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. Only the stillness in you can perceive the silence outside”
18 “Something could happen at any moment, and if you are not absolutely awake, absolutely still, you will miss it.”
19 “Stop judging other people. See everyone with dignity, with a story, with reasons for why they are how they are and why they do what they do. The more you accept other people, the more you’ll accept yourself, and vice versa.”
20 “It's always yourself you find at the end of the journey.”
21 “The obstacle is the way.”
22 “Someone else’s success doesn’t make you less successful.”
23 “Nobody’s life is as good as it looks online.”
24 “waiting to feel ready before you start acting is how the knowing-doing gap widens.”
25 “Socially intelligent people know that not everybody wants to communicate, learn, grow or connect—and so they do not try to force them.”
26 “Be mindful of who you surround yourself with. Your most constant company will account for a lot of how you turn out over the coming years. Pay attention.”
27 “grief is a faster teacher than joy”
28 “The worst happened, and then it passed. You lost the person you thought you couldn’t live without and then you kept living. You lost your job then found another one. You began to realize that “safety” isn’t in certainty—but in faith that you can simply keep going.”
29 “The universe whispers until it screams, and happy people listen while the call is still quiet”
30 “Everything you do, see, and feel is a reflection of not who you are, but how you are. You create what you believe. You see what you want. You’ll have what you give.”
31 “The path to a greater life is not “suffering until you achieve something,” but letting bits and pieces of joy and gratitude and meaning and purpose gradually build, bit by bit.”
32 “If we could see souls instead of bodies, what would be beautiful? What is the first thing people would know about you? What would you be most afraid of them seeing? Who would you impress? Who would you love?”
33 “To fully accept your life—the highs, lows, good, bad—is to be grateful for all of it, and to know that the “good” teaches you well, but the “bad” teaches you better.”
34 “Everything is hard; it’s just a matter of what you think is worth the effort.”
35 “Nobody is thinking about you the way you are thinking about you. They’re all thinking about themselves.”
36 “To accept something, you must be happy about it, or at least okay with it.”
37 “It’s doing, not thinking about doing, that creates a life well lived. If you want your life to be different, do differently.”
38 “Take photos to remember happy moments, not to prove that you look good or did something cool. Make a special album in your phone just for "happy moments.”
39 “Fire can burn your house down, or it can cook you dinner each night and keep you warm in the winter. Your mind is the same way.”
40 “Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands”
I hope you enjoyed these quotes as much as I did. Brianna Wiest's "101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think" is truly a treasure trove of wisdom and inspiration. If any of these quotes resonated with you, I encourage you to read the whole book. It's filled with many more insights that can help you grow and see life in a new light.
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