Kate McGahan > Quotes

“The more we love the more we lose. The more we lose the more we learn. The more we learn the more we love. It comes full circle. Life is the school, love is the lesson. We cannot lose.”
― Kate McGahan

“Once you know this kind of love, you will never question love again. You’ll know it when you see it. You’ll know it when you feel it. You will never be confused by something that is something else.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Love can be found in unexpected places. Sometimes we go out searching for what we think we want and we end up with what we’re supposed to have.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Oh it was meant to be. It just wasn't meant to last.”
― Kate McGahan

“It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.”
― Kate McGahan

“You think the final act of love is setting them free to Rainbow Bridge? That is not the final act of love. The final act of love is releasing them from your leash of grief so they can be free in the heaven on the other side of the Bridge. Until you resolve your grief, you bind them to you in the land between Heaven and Earth while they wait, suspended between the worlds, for you to heal. When you are free of your grief, they are free of your grief.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.”
― Kate McGahan

“If you were easier on yourself, you wouldn't be so tough on everyone else.”
― Kate McGahan

“Love is like the sea. The waves of life, they ebb and flow; they come and go. Time sweeps us away from each other. Love always brings us back.”
― Kate McGahan

“Like the cat who finds her way back home over a thousand miles, like the dog who waits for his master to arrive on the train that never comes, like the one who keeps a vigil at her master’s grave until she too can cross the bridge, some people and their pets are woven together by threads of life and they cannot, and will not, for long be separated.”
― Kate McGahan

“All the love you ever gave is waiting for you there at Rainbow Bridge.”
― Kate McGahan

“Some souls come together just for a little while to teach each other something. It can be confusing because you can think you love someone at first sight and you assume that they are a soul mate. You think it’s supposed to last forever. You share the same dreams because when your mind is asleep, your souls travel to the same place so that you can be together. You think of them and they call within moments, because they are thinking of you too. The truth is that some soul mates stay just long enough to teach you what you need to learn.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

“The whole point of life is to learn love. Life is the school, love is the lesson and we are all here to teach each other.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Why do people feel better when they blame someone? I don’t know. Maybe it just feels better to be angry than to be sad.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“By loving all the parts of you that I dislike in myself, I am learning to love me too.”
― Kate McGahan

“We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.”
― Kate McGahan

“I can love who I think you are
Or you can allow yourself
To be yourself
So that I can love YOU.”
― Kate McGahan

“Soul is the invisible part of a living being that is immortal and breath is the evidence that the soul exists. The soul is what goes to Heaven when we no longer need our body here. We may be dogs, but we breathe, we bleed, and we love just like anybody else.”
― Kate McGahan

“The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“I feel like I have lost myself. I want to find the “Me” that went away with you. The part of me that loved so unceasingly without condition. The part of me that loved the way you taught me how to love. The part of me that felt more real than I ever felt before. No one seems to find that “Me” and I can’t find Me either.”
― Kate McGahan, Only Gone From Your Sight: Jack McAfghan's Little Therapy Guide to Pet Loss and Grief

“He told me that soul mates come into our lives at very precise times to inspire and to awaken us to bigger and better ways of looking at the world and interacting with it. We’ve known each other before, he said, and we will know each other again.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan's - The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Animal Spirit Angel

“I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“Love comes in waves. It's natural law. There's always more coming.”
― Kate McGahan

“Life's just a dream. It isn't real. I know that you can't see that yet. You want me to wake up but in my death I did wake up and I saw you were still sleeping.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“You can’t make someone your everything because when they are gone you have nothing left.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“I seek you like the waves seek the shore. I cannot stay, and too, I cannot stay away from you. When I push against the drift, I choke! I gasp for air! I drown within my love for you. So I will ebb and I will flow and let the tide direct my course and see where it will go.”
― Kate McGahan

“Plants can feel pressure and emotion. When something is said or done with intention, a plant can respond. So every day we tell our tree that it is beautiful, it will get more and more beautiful. I hope that tree knew how beautiful I thought it was.”
― Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge: A Dog's Afterlife Story of Loss, Love and Renewal

“Sometimes in life our master will teach us and then test us like this. He will send the same painful circumstances to us over and over again until we no longer want what isn’t good for us; until he is sure that we have learned what we need to know so that he can move us on to new kinds of lessons and experience.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“We tried to make a heaven of earth,
But the earth is just a stage, a school,
Where we wear our masks and play our roles
And teach each other how to love.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master

“We need to go first because we cannot live without your love and care. If we lived longer than you, we would not and could not survive. It’s supposed to be this way. We also need to cross the Rainbow Bridge before you do so that we can be on the other side to greet you when you get there. We wait at home for you here and we wait at Home for you there. It’s just the way it is.”
― Kate McGahan, JACK McAFGHAN: Reflections on Life with my Master