The Mountain Is You Quotes

“Your new life is going to cost you your old one.”
― Brianna Wiest - The Mountain is You, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“The next time you're trying to craft a glow-up story that is compelling to others, ask yourself why you are still waiting for their approval.

The answer, almost always, is that you still do not have your own.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Sometimes, we sabotage our relationships because what we really want is to find ourselves, though we are afraid to be alone. Sometimes, we sabotage our professional success because what we really want is to create art, even if it will make us seem less ambitious by society's measures. Sometimes, we sabotage our healing journey by psychoanalyzing our feelings, because doing so ensures we avoid actually experiencing them. Sometimes, we sabotage our self-talk because if we believed in ourselves, we'd feel free to get back out in the world and take risks, and that would leave us vulnerable.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“It might seem totally counterintuitive but we are not really wired to be happy; we are wired to be comfortable, and anything that is outside of that realm of comfort feels threatening or scary until we are familiar with it.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“You change your life when you start showing up exactly as you are.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“You let go when you build a new life so immersive and engaging and exciting, you slowly, over time, forget about the past.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“In fact, the universe does not allow perfection. Without breaks and gaps, there would be no growth. Nature depends
on imperfection. Fault lines make mountains, star implosions become supernovas, and the death of one season creates the rebirth of the next”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Your big life change is going to force you to level up in every way imaginable, and the way to overcome the initial fear of stepping into the unknown is to familiarize yourself with it, to make it a part of you, one that you are
certain you are prepared for—and that you deserve.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“the more you avoid a fear, the more intense it
becomes”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“The thing is that there are millions of scary things that can happen to us in our lives. That is true for everyone. When we are hung up on one scary thing over another, it’s not
because it’s a more imminent or likely threat; it’s because we are less convinced, we would be able to respond to it.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“The objective of being human is to grow. We see this reflected back to us in every part of life. Species reproduce, DNA evolves to eliminate certain strands and develop
new ones, and the edges of the universe are expanding forever outward. Likewise, our ability to feel the depth and beauty of life is capable of expanding forever inward
if we are willing to take our problems and see them as catalysts. Forests need fire to do this, volcanoes need implosions, stars need collapse, and human beings often need to
be faced with no other option but to change before they really do.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

“Emotions are temporary, but behaviors are permanent.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery / 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think