All Katrina Kenison Quotes
- Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. Delight
- I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys… Adulthood
- Meaning and purpose come not from accomplishing great things in the world, but simply from loving those who are right in front of you, doing… Accomplishing
- Perhaps the real point of life is simply to wear us down until we have no choice but to start abandoning our defenses. We learn… Abandoning
- One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's… Accept
- We are the windows through which our children first see the world. Let us be conscious of the view. Children
- Magic wasn't something I had to go in search of; it was here, within me, all the time. When hearts are open, when love is… All
- It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now – the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish… All
- At times, my nostalgia for our family life as it used to be--for our own imperfect, cherished, irretrievable past--is nearly overwhelming. Cherished
- Now I see that the journey was never meant to lead to some new and improved version of me; that it has always been about… Been
- Growth and transformation occur not by changing who we are, but as we summon the courage to be who we are. Changing
- I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This chalice,… Across
- Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul. Actively
- Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the… Alone
- As I loosen my grip on the past, as I keep taking one small step after another in the direction I want to go, I… All
- I can only bring peace to my children when I possess it myself. Bring
- In stillness, we find our peace. Knowing peace at home, we bring peace into the world. Bring
- we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we… All
- One thing we've learned this summer is that a house is not an end in itself, any more than "home" is just one geographic location… Any
- When we focus on what is good and beautiful in someone, whether or not we think that they "deserve" it, the good and beautiful are… Attention
- Life finds its balance. Children grow up. Second chances come along. In the meantime, I could choose to savor this moment. What good would it… Allow
- ...there is no such thing as a charmed life, not for any of us, no matter where we live or how mindfully we attend to… All