Brianna Wiest

The main thing socially intelligent people understand is that your relationship to everyone else is an extension of your relationship to

yourself.

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

Even if it wasn’t your fault, it is your problem, and you get to choose what you do in the aftermath. You have every right to rage and rant and hate every iota of someone’s being, but you also have the right to choose to be at peace. To thank them is to forgive them, and to forgive them is to choose to realize that the other side of resentment is wisdom.