Caroline Knapp Quotes

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.

Yes, I was a footballer, but there's more to me than meets the eye. I've got more levels. So many levels. I'm not going away - and I'm going to keep on talking until things start changing.

Nothing happens until you decide.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

The heart of change is in the emotions…. We see, we feel, we change.

The end of all you’re your actions is to seek the applause of shopkeepers, while you neglect what is most important to you—energy, energy!

Put your choices in perspective.

People around me, they can give me talks, they can tell me what to do, but if I don't have the right mentality, then nothing good is going to happen for me because I'm not going to be confident.

Going back because it's what I did and I was sort of all right at it is not a good reason to race the TT.

I always knew I was going to be something. I didn't know what.