101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

by Brianna Wiest

You think your past defines you, and worse, you think that it is an unchangeable reality, when really, your perception of it changes as you do.

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.

Your habits create your mood, and your mood is a filter through which you experience your life.

The point is that it’s not one thought that throws us into a tizzy: It’s the pattern of continually experiencing that thought that compounds its effect and makes it seem valid.

Forgetting what our bodies were meant to do—laugh and play and jump and hug and love—and there is literally zero evolutionary advantage in having chiseled hipbones to help you do any of that.

Fucking try. Honestly, seriously, try. Put your everything into the work you have. Be kind to people when they don’t deserve it. You’ll have a lot less energy to worry with when you’re funneling it into things that are really worthwhile.