Kami Garcia Quotes

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

I've got to be happy with myself when this ride is over.

I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.

I stopped asking myself questions like what the value of my stock was and started asking more fundamental questions of life and death.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.

Ultimately, I'm fine with everything that I've done.

We should provide the meaning of the universe in the meaning of our own lives. So I think science doesn't necessarily have to get in the way of kind of spiritual fulfillment.

With all the highs and lows I've had in my life, I wouldn't change anything. So no, I don't, this is what I'm supposed to be doing.

You learn to accept your own reality.

At this point in my life I'm not bent on proving anything, really.

These years in silence and reflection made me stronger and reminded me that acceptance has to come from within and that this kind of truth gives me the power to conquer emotions I didn't even know existed.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I'm happier because I had to face what all of us try not to face: that we're going to die. It's a fact.