Katy > Katy's Quotes

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson... Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.”
― Robin Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

“How slow life is, how violent hope is.”
― Guillaume Apollinaire

“general intelligence and practical intelligence are "orthogonal": the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Most people can motivate themselves to do things simply by knowing that those things need to be done. But not me. For me, motivation is this horrible, scary game where I try to make myself do something while I actively avoid doing it. If I win, I have to do something I don't want to do. And if I lose, I'm one step closer to ruining my entire life. And I never know whether I'm going to win or lose until the last second.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

“The absurdity of working so hard to continue doing something you don’t like can be overwhelming.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

“Procrastination has become its own solution - a tool I can use to push myself so close to disaster that I become terrified and flee toward success. A more troubling matter is the day-to-day activities that don't have massive consequences when I neglect to do them.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

“Nobody can guarantee that it's going to be okay, but - and I don't know if this will be comforting to anyone else - the possibility exists that there's a piece of corn on a floor somewhere that will make you just as confused about why you were laughing as you have ever been about why you are depressed.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

“Unfortunately, the source of my shittiness is the fact that I’m shitty. I just am. It is not possible for me to not be that way. I can prevent myself from being actively shitty. I can do things that a not-shitty person would do. But the shittiness is always going to be there, just beneath the surface, straining to get out.”
― Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half

“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.”
― Alice Childress

“You were the best thing that ever happen to me. I hope that someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“A broken heart is still a beating one.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It’s all a matter of how you look at it.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“you can easily switch the letters of a word around to see another hidden meaning, such is life.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“Through death there was life. Through hate there was love. I looked down at my son. “In the end, there was you, and that made it all worth it.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“The “one that got away” was supposed to stay away, not come back and leave you all over again.”
― Penelope Ward, Stepbrother Dearest

“Do you ever worry that life is passing you by while day in and day out you’re focused on what you’re supposed to be doing, rather than what you want to be doing? Then, before you know it, you’re old and curled up on your deathbed, weigh ninety pounds, nothing but elbows and knees, consumed with remorseful thoughts that obligations and function controlled your life while you sat idly by and watched it happen. Feeble and unable to eat anything but chicken broth or ice chips, you think, Golden years my ass, I’ll never get the chance to shout my name from the rooftop and why didn’t I take advantage of my youth?”
― Allison Morgan, The Someday Jar

“Fear reminds us we're still alive. Regret will dig us an early grave.”
― Allison Morgan, The Someday Jar