101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

by Brianna Wiest

Many of the world’s ‘best’ people understood that to change their lives, they had to change their minds.

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Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.

Bad feelings should not always be interpreted as deterrents. They are also indicators that you are doing something frightening and worthwhile.

If you want to change your life, change your beliefs. If you want to change your beliefs, go out and have experiences that make them real to you.

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.

routine is important because habitualness creates mood, and mood creates the “nurture” aspect of your personality,

Most things that bring genuine happiness are not just temporary, immediate gratifications, and those things also come with resistance and require sacrifice.

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.

A lack of routine is just a breeding ground for perpetual procrastination.

They are kind to all, but truly open to few.

I want to believe that you either love someone, in some way, forever, or you never really loved them at all. That once two reactive chemicals cross, both

are changed. That the wounds we leave in people are sometimes too raw to risk falling back into them.

We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too.