Brittany Phelps

“The real glow up isn’t proving the people from your past wrong. It is finally feeling so content and hopeful about your future that you stop thinking about them entirely.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery

“The truest friendships are those that allow us to step out of the confines of what we once were, and to realize instead what we might be.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“It occurred to Marjery that this was how it was, that there was always darkness, and in this darkness was unspeakable suffering, and yet there were also the daily things -- there was even the search for a gold beetle -- and while they could not cancel the appalling horror, they were as real.”
― Rachel Joyce, Miss Benson's Beetle

“Happiness is not something you can chase. It is something you have to allow. This likely will come as a surprise to many people, as the world is so adamant about everything from positive psychology to motivational Pinterest boards. But happiness is not something you can coach yourself into. Happiness is your natural state. That means you will return to it on your own if you allow the other feelings you want to experience to come up, be felt, be processed, and not resisted. 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.”
― Brianna Wiest, The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery