101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

by Brianna Wiest

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

The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to yourself.

Nobody wants to believe happiness is a choice, because that puts responsibility in their hands.

What are you doing today? Who do you love? What intrigues you? What would you do today if you could be anyone you wanted? If social media didn’t exist? What do you want to do this weekend? “What do I want?” is a question you need to ask yourself every day. The things that run true will weave through your life, the ones that pop back up again and again are the ones you’ll follow. They’ll become the places you remain, the people you’re drawn to, the choices you make. The core truths will win out, even if other truths are lodged beside them.

The world is not as it is, it is as we are.

Make sure you’re living more than you’re thinking about living.

Society (likes to believe) it thrives when we are extrinsically motivated. At least, this is how capitalism runs, this is how people stay in power, this is how we are kept small. When people believe that they are victims, they forfeit their power.

We talk a lot about how to get love, but we talk very little about how to give it. We talk about getting love as though it’s a precursor to giving it. As though giving if we aren’t receiving makes us weak. As though no respectable person would keep being kind and loving to someone who didn’t love them back. As though being loving is being devoted, rather than being strong and honest and true and sometimes walking away. You cannot convince someone to love you if they don’t.