Top 33 Katrina Kenison Quotes
#1. Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing all you can with what you have, in the time you have, in the place where you are.
Katrina Kenison
#2. I had a really good family, Braden, I told him softly, pain I'd been hiding for too long threaded in every word.
Samantha Young
#3. Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is flowing, magic happens.
Katrina Kenison
#5. Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
Katrina Kenison
#6. This, I suspect, is the territory that lies just ahead and around the curve of today. A place where loss grows more familiar, where joy is harmonized by sorrow, where endings outnumber beginnings, and where kindness becomes a sacrament.
Katrina Kenison
#8. When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are strengthened merely by the light of our attention.
Katrina Kenison
#9. At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be
for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past
is nearly overwhelming.
Katrina Kenison
#10. Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.
Katrina Kenison
#11. We can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another ... we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves.
Katrina Kenison
#12. It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
Donald Byrd
#13. I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free.
Nelson Mandela
#14. I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
Karen Kingsbury
#15. Moment by moment we have the opportunity to say yes, to move into our lives and open ourselves to the adventure...
Katrina Kenison
#16. Stay focused on what is beautiful and abundant even as illness carves more and more of what you love away
Katrina Kenison
#17. Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it do to allow annoyance to interfere with gratitude?
Katrina Kenison
#18. If we are to talk in the language of social constructions, then the construction of the very concepts of the social and the biological must also be elucidated.
Denise Riley
#19. I'll always be here if you need me," Mothwing told him. "I may not share your faith, but I will always help you fight for what you believe in.
Erin Hunter
#20. Like star that shines afar, slowly now, and without rest, let each man turn with steady sway, around the task that rules the day, and do his best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. I must be a masochist to keep putting myself in these situations. I need help. I
need to see a shrink or be locked in a padded cell or straitjacketed or something.
Stephanie Perkins
#22. Any attempts at humor immediately after September 11th were deemed tasteless.
Allen Klein
#23. Close your eyes, and think of someone you physically admire, and let me kiss you.
Morrissey
#24. If some essential part of me was already disappearing as my children moved into increasingly wider orbits, well then, I wanted to rech out and claim something else to take its place.
Katrina Kenison
#25. Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are.
Katrina Kenison
#26. We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view.
Katrina Kenison
#27. In simplicity, there is freedom - freedom to do less and enjoy more.
Katrina Kenison
#28. Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about coming home to who I already am.
Katrina Kenison
#29. In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world.
Katrina Kenison
#30. I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself.
Katrina Kenison
#31. All learning is derived from things previously known.
Aristotle.
#32. I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I never had before that living on this earth, growing older, and growing up in the true sense of the word is really about learning how to let go.
Katrina Kenison
#33. Home was this whole perfectly contained universe
town, friends, acquaintances, the streets we traveled every day ... And we were about to leave it all.
Katrina Kenison
