freedom

“The person you become when you are on your own is a garden you will carry with you forever. Use the quiet. Even if every single thing in your life works out exactly the way you want it to, you wake up with yourself every day. You have to know who you want to be.

You are the most constant relationship in your own life, you are the most constant presence in your own life, you are the most common denominator in every experience you have ever had, and will ever have. Investing in yourself is an evergreen task, the ripple effects of which are often greater than you can imagine. You have to decide how you want to be. What you are going to value, what is going to matter. You have to choose, and cultivate, the kind of person you are going to become, because a beautiful life rarely happens on accident. You are your own vessel, and the way you build it changes the way you experience everything - every last thing that will ever come your way.

You have to decide which version of you is going to show up to the days you are dreaming about.” - Brianna Wiest