Brianna Wiest

The moments when we are most vulnerable are usually the ones our best friend comes in handy for.

Because above all else, you will regret that you didn’t love people when you had the chance.

Young love is just so new and exciting and compelling and you just can’t spend a minute without that person… and it all comes back to bite you in the ass when you break up and you’re left with nothing because your whole life revolves around your former special someone.

7. A savings account with something in it.

The most beautiful things arise from the least promising situations.

Go to bed reading poetry and wake up letting any negative thoughts pass by you and finding beautiful ones to fill your emptiness.

These are a few truths that usually apply to universal-shameless-soul-baring.

“Do not be afraid of a world in which women know themselves, their voice and their power. That world has arrived.”

I can change. I will change. I do choose otherwise. That life I pictured today will be a ghost that I forget about because I’ll have more important things happening.

Before anyone else, you need to make sure you want to be with yourself. If the doors are closing, let them, and sit with yourself.

It’s you and me stepping down from lashing out just once, and letting that wave tide over us and recess.

It’s not what you say but the fact that you’re saying it.

Look at what you want to perpetuate to other people, when you yourself can’t find the words. What strikes you most is who you are.

If something were to happen that would cause you to lose all of your past memories permanently, who would you be?

We’re all at war with each other in our own little ways, literally gathering guns and metaphorically building cages within our own minds. I’m here to tell you that anything that makes you reach for weaponry for a sense of comfort somehow, somewhere along the line, has to do with fear.

The relationships we thought would never end did. All the hopes we had of spending forever with someone were crushed and so were we. We had a period of rejection-induced-loathing-filled-misery. We sought all the advice there is to seek.

More than anything, I wish that someone would have told me that the only person I was looking to please was me. I was the problem and I was the answer all along.

You can’t control what you born into. You can, however, control who you keep in your life.