Kath > Kath's Quotes

“God's will for us is what's left over when we have done everything we can possibly do to get out of doing what we're doing rigth now.”
― Joan D. Chittister, Radical Spirit: 12 Ways to Live a Free and Authentic Life

“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Maktub" (It is written.)”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“I realize now that dying is easy. Living is hard.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“Love makes you want to be a better man—right, right. But maybe love, real love, also gives you permission to just be the man you are.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.”
― Monica Murphy, One Week Girlfriend

“Maybe it was a mistake leaving you.
And I don’t know how to make it right.
Regret fills me every single day.
So much of it builds up I
Hate myself for
Missing you. Hurting you.
And I want you to know i...
Long for you
Love you
Others may come and go in our lives but...
We belong together”
― Monica Murphy, Second Chance Boyfriend

“True love isn’t easy, but it must be fought for. Once you find it, it can never be replaced.”
― Monica Murphy, Second Chance Boyfriend

“It’s the people who know you the best who can hurt you the most.”
― Monica Murphy, One Week Girlfriend

“I love you,” I whispered.

“I've loved you longer,” he said.”
― Wendy Higgins, Sweet Peril

“It's not like in the movies. It's better, because it's real.”
― Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“I want your world to begin and end with me.”
― E.L. James, Fifty Shades Freed

“- Soy feliz. Jamás me he sentido tan bien, ¿y tu?
- ¿Yo? - Step la abraza con fuerza-. Estoy de maravilla.
- ¿Hasta el punto de llegar a tocar el cielo con un dedo?
- No, así no.
- ¿Ah, no?
- Mucho más. Al menos tres metros sobre el cielo.”
― Federico Moccia

“… y es ahí, justo en ese momento, cuando te das cuenta de que las cosas sólo ocurren una vez, y por mucho que te esfuerces ya nunca volverás a sentir lo mismo, ya nunca tendrás la sensación de estar a tres metros sobre el cielo”.”
― Federico Moccia

“El sol está saliendo y es una bonita mañana. Ella se dirige a clase; él aún no se ha acostado. Un día como otro cualquiera. Pero en el semáforo se encuentran el uno al lado del otro. Y a partir de ese momento, ya no será un día cualquiera.”
― Federico Moccia, A tres metros sobre el cielo

“Work is what you have to do to pay rent. Life is what happens when your shift is over.”
― Marianne Kavanagh

“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Insanity is the ability to communicate your ideas. It’s as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that’s going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don’t understand the language they speak there.”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.”
― Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore