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Tagged "self-work"

The synopses we spend so much time writing are for characters we no longer are. … You cannot always make sense of your coexisting truths.
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
📑 self-work 📑 self-concept
You’re not going to be ready for the love of your life when they show up. … And if you deny yourself that relationship because you think you need to do more work beforehand, you’re denying yourself the best growing tool there is.
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
📑 relationships 📑 self-work
When you see somebody else displaying one of these traits, it’s infuriating, not because you inherently dislike it, but because you have to fight your desire to fully integrate it into your whole consciousness. … The things you hate about others are the things you cannot see in yourself.
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
📑 self-work 📑 self-concept 📑 friendship
We can’t choose whose wreckage can [change the parts of ourselves and our worlds we can’t]. We all start as strangers, but we forget that we rarely choose who ends up a stranger, too.
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
📑 relationships 📑 friendship 📑 self-work 📑 unrequited-love
The root of the work of being human is learning how to think.
—Brianna Wiest, 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think. Highlighted
📑 self-work 📑 self-concept