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“Life is too short to say maybe”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“You need to be content with small steps. That's all life is. Small steps that you take every day so when you look back down the road it all adds up and you know you covered some distance. It took me a long time to accept that, but it's true. You need to have patience."",”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“I was starting to think, maybe you need to feel your way more through life—just turn off the lights and follow your senses, even if you stumble once in a while. Maybe that's what falling in love is like. Just feeling your way through the darkness until you find something solid to hold on to.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“You can't stop people from being
human. We're creative, we're social. People are like water. If you
try to contain them, they find a way to break free.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“I rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy."

He thought about this. "Maybe he's normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're all just afraid of what we'd say.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“When you get too excited about the possibilities, you don't stop to consider the consequences. Just when you get too cocky, life has a way of putting you in your place.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Come on, life passes you by when you stand around talking
about it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Maybe he’s normal and we’re the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we’re all just afraid of what we’d say.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like what
happens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.
It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how you
react. That's the trick.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“You don't have to choose sides," he said. "Make
up your own mind and believe that.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular...when you look too hard for something, you get nearsighted because you only see what you want to see.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“I wouldn`t want to be that smart" Clare added. "Sometimes the more you know, the harder it is to enjoy life. It`s like you lose curiosity or something.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“If you think too much about the future, about seeing me again, you won't exprience anything. You'll just be a slave to time.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Think about our bodies. We're a chain of veins and organs and tehy're all interconnected. If something isn't going right in one area, the whole system can get out of whack. That's teh way I see the world. We're all connected. I don't see myself as this separate entity. I see things in a much larger scale. Everything I do directly affects another person, all the way down the chain. Every person I help can help another; we're all connected. Change happens one person at a time. And I want to commit my life to seeing that through.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“You
can see all of this online. But that's cheating. No computer program
can compare to the physical experience. It's like learning how to
play a virtual sports game. You're not really playing anything,
against anyone. You're just a spectator. People are becoming
spectators of their own lives instead of living them. But the best part
is getting in the game. That's when it's all worth it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“What's the fun in always knowing where things will take you?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“We'll never realize our potential if we always live inside the boundaries of what we fear.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Trust comes by earning it, not expecting it.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Because that's the point, nothing is ever permanent. We're just being brainwashed to think there isn't more out there. Here's the truth: your situation is never permanent. It's what you make it. Life isn't solid, it's fluid. It changes. You say we're stuck but that's a hopeless way to look at it. It's like saying we should give up.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“The way fire moves, it consumes you. It's so beautiful you want to touch it but you know you can't. I think that's part of its draw.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“Three weeks feels like three years when you spend all your time missing someone.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“I think labeling someone's intelligence with a letter grade isn't a sign of their ability.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken

“If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Awaken