20 Brianna Wiest Quotes for Your Silent Comeback
“You will know that it’s time to take your power back when there is no other viable choice, because in the aftermath of loss, you discovered that you unraveled your own existence so that nothing could be taken from you again.”
— Brianna Wiest
It’s been quite a while since I completed reading Brianna Wiest’s baby, The Mountain Is You, and I still can’t take my heart off it.
Even though I’ve got my hands on another book, I find myself going back to The Mountain Is You again and again.
I find myself reading her over and over. She steals hearts and strengthens the mind.
Her words are so beautiful and moving. The overwhelming love she receives online speaks volumes. People call her the writer angel — the one who’s helping them heal and guiding them to their true north.
Once you read Brianna, you dream of writing like Brianna.
Brianna Wiest (born October 11, 1992) is an American writer, author, and poet. She is best known for her work on mindfulness, spirituality, and emotional intelligence.
She’s teaching the world how to climb the inner mountains that block them from reaching their zenith and guiding them to take radical responsibility for their lives.
We all carry the seed, a seed with the potential to grow into a mighty tree but because the process is hard, we sometimes need angels to assure us that growth is still possible.
Brianna is that angel.
She helps people nurture that seed and ensures the tree doesn’t die within them.
There is a plethora of writers, but that doesn’t stop the star from standing out.
With her words, Brianna is illuminating many souls stuck in their dark nights.
She is young as a petal, pretty as a flower, and beautiful as the fragrance.
Her words are an ocean — deep and vast — filled with courage, resilience, and the reminder that you are enough.
Reading her book The Mountain Is You was pure joy. I had a ball of a time, and I was a different person by the time I reached the last page.
Someone who reads her becomes a walking advertisement for her work. You just can’t stop promoting her.
What I found after reading Brianna is this:
You don’t need to chase readers. You need to dive so deeply into your art that it becomes irresistible.
Now that I’m so in awe of the power of Brianna’s words, I want to share her light with my little world of readers.
I’ve handpicked some of the most life-transforming quotes by Brianna, which I believe will have you reading them over and over again — and may just serve as tools to help you redesign yourself.
1. “Your goal is not to arrive at a place where everything is perfect, or seems perfect, but to arrive at a place where you are better able to respond to what is imperfect.”
What you go through never seeks your permission, but you have the authority to choose how you come out of it.
Life can be a mess many times, but that doesn’t mean you have to become a mess with it.
You have the choice to clean it, clear it, and build something better in its place.
2. “Another person’s progress is an affirmation of what’s possible, not a reason to doubt your own. The people you envy are not your competition; they are your mentors.”
The moment you become envious of someone else’s growth, you guarantee your own inability to grow.
If anything can affirm your potential to achieve what you desire, it’s witnessing another human being succeed.
When someone else makes it happen, it’s not a threat — it’s a message packed with inspiration, a reminder that it’s equally possible for you too.
3. “I think there’s a point in your healing journey where you stop trying to convince other people to do the right thing, you just observe their choices, understand their character, and decide what you’re going to allow in your life.”
Correcting someone doesn’t always mean they’ll accept they were wrong.
Sometimes, we need to stop focusing on how wrong they were, and instead ask ourselves how righteously we can course-correct our relationship with them.
Because it’s not about how wrong they are — it’s about how right you can be toward yourself.
4. “It is terrifying to pursue your dreams, pour your heart into your work, love with everything you’ve got, be vulnerable, risk it all, live outside the lines, find peace without having every answer.
It is far more terrifying not to.”
Doing the wild stuff takes courage — but not doing it can be even wilder.
5. “Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.”
Don’t just fill the empty space — because an empty space is still better than filling it with trash.
It should look beautiful and feel right, not just appear full.
6. “When you romanticize the future more than the past, you move forward. But when you romanticize the present, you become free.”
Depression is when you think about the past. Anxiety is when you think about the future. And happiness is when you think about the present.
7. “Accomplishing goals is not success. How much you expand in the process is.”
Results are fleeting but growth that you achieve while working for them is permanent.
8. “Nobody cries at a funeral because the world will be missing out on another pretty face. They cry because the world is missing another heart, another soul, another person.
Don’t wait until it’s too late to focus on what will actually matter: creating something that lasts far beyond your body.”
Its fine to work on your body until your heart and soul are not being ignored. The world might praise pretty faces but they only remember beautiful hearts.
9. “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.”
The people you meet and interact with introduce you to yourself.
What aligns with them shows you what feels good and natural to you.
What conflicts with them reveals what makes you uncomfortable or what you need to explore within.
It’s only through crossing paths with others that you begin to understand your own path more clearly.
10. “The universe whispers until it screams, and happy people listen while the call is still quiet.”
Life will many times look like a maze wherein you will feel lost but there is someone to guide you through it. Divine guidance is always there to help you, you just have to remove the noise to hear what it whispers.
11.The point of anything is not what you get from having done it; it’s who you become from having gone through it.
What you achieved stands small in front of who you became while you worked on achieving it. The person who started it is not the same person who achieved it and this change is what makes you more than the achievement.
12. “When you start considering things not as obligations but as opportunities, you start taking advantage of them rather than trying to avoid them.”
They’re not hard situations — they’re situations that reveal how tough you are.
It’s in the bad that the good is proven.
It’s in the mess that the fighting spirit is seen.
It’s in the storms that your tolerance is tested.
And it’s in adversity that true growth begins.
13. “Everything you lose becomes something you are profoundly grateful for. With time, you see that it was not the path. It was what was standing in your way.”
What feels like loss is often life clearing the way.
14. The less you resist your unhappiness, the happier you will be. It is often just trying too hard to feel one certain way that sets us up for failure.”
When we obsess for that one emotion, we feel comfortable in, we make all the other emotions a reason to be uncomfortable in.
15. “If you want to master your life, you have to learn to organize your feelings. By becoming aware of them, you can trace them back to the thought process that prompted them, and from there you can decide whether or not the idea is an actual threat or concern, or a fabrication of your reptilian mind just trying to keep you alive.”
Allow feelings, they make you human but decide which of them deserves a seat in your room and which of them will make your room a clutter.
16. “All you’re going to lose is what was built for a person you no longer are.”
Losing a part of you is painful but when you get to know that it was only a hurdle in becoming the person you always wanted to, you embrace the loss.
17. “There is no such thing as letting go; there’s just accepting what’s already gone. There’s losing ourselves in the labyrinth of the illusion of control and finding joy in the chaos, even when it’s uncomfortable.
It’s not forever. It only remains as long as we hold on. As long as we fight. As long as we control. As long as we don’t accept what’s already gone.”
The situation is not haunting, it’s the wild scenarios we create around it that scares us the most. Let these uncomfortable situations sit. They gain power to disturb you only when you start entertaining them.
18. “It’s not whether you ‘feel’ like putting in the work, but whether or not you do it regardless.”
What you want, wants you first. Get the mood out of your way to bring progress along the way.
19. “If you’re in the space between where you are and where you want to be, remember the person you’re becoming is already inside you. The journey is convincing your mind to act consistently on what your heart already wants to do.”
There’s no doubt about who you dream of becoming — the only uncertainty is how real that dream feels to you.
Once you believe in it fully, you start living it in every step you take toward it, rather than just waiting to live it once it’s achieved.
20. “When we are committed to what we want, but flexible about how it comes, we open the door to miracles.”
Fix your goal first, then prepare yourself for whatever path it takes to achieve it.
I hope reading these quotes opens a small window for you — one through which you can see the path you’re destined to take and find the courage to walk it.
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