Quotes by Katie Kacvinsky

The happiest people arent necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. Theyre the ones who are interested in the people around them.

Things never happen the way you plan. Take it a second at a time. Stay in the moment. Its the only way to control it. Your thoughts can paralyze you. They make you second-guess and thats when you lose. You mentally beat yourself. Believe you can handle anything. Look at something thats bigger than you and take it all in, the enormousness of it. Drown in it. Then take a step back. Comparmentalize it. Remember, anythings attainable. And take every risk you can, as long as you trust yourself.

When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; its like a karmic law.

What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind.

Its like looking through a microscope your whole life, he (Justin) said. You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.

But Im learning its human nature to want the things you cant have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When youre a little kid and youre told no, you scream and throw a temper tantrum. When youre a teenager and your parents tell you no, youre old enough to internalize your temper tantrum. But youre smarter and youre sneakier this time around. So you nod and act like you care when they say no, when they tell you who you can be friends with, when they say the know whats best. But then you go behind their backs to do it anyway. Because at some point, you need to start calling the shots. At some point, you need to start believing you know whats best. Or, I thought with a smile, you just stop asking for their permission in the first place.

Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. Thats what takes work.

By the way, the other reason I agreed to help you is because I love your eyes. You have the most beautiful eyes. Its my weakness.

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.

I rolled my eyes. Hes talking to himself. My vote is hes crazy. He thought about this. Maybe hes normal and were the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe were all just afraid of what wed say.

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.

Im inlove with him. Completely. Absolutely. Tragically.

...dont be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.

Its ironic..here is life passing, like clouds drifting over the sky, yet they dont see whats in front of them. They believe there is something more substantial going on in that little screen in their hands.

But how can you be there for someone who doesnt need you? Its like trying to scale a wall without anyone on the top throwing you a rope. You just keep sliding down and eventually your muscles give out, and your energy and your will and your heart.

“Dont worry about hurting me, if thats what youre afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I´ll feel something for a change.”