Kim Reynolds Quotes

I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

I have a second chance on life.

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Sometimes I do feel like I write the same story again and again. And for me, I am always looking for a place with a kind of redemption.

There's still time for redemption if I live long enough, don't you think?

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

I feel like I have a new life and I'm going to take full advantage of it.

I don't think anyone, until their soul leaves their body, is past the point of no return.

I don't think God's through with me.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

Change makes you find your calling, your legacy, and God's divine plan for your life. Don't run from it.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

God has placed within each of us an immeasurable, unique gift. It is our duty to live that out to the full and to encourage one another with gusto.

I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.

Living is a constant source of inspiration.

Life is supposed to be about love and good times, and so I've forgiven myself after paying the consequences of my bad decisions, and I'm ready to move forward and allow my life to be a light to others that it's never over, even for a person like me, who has lost a tremendous amount of respect among my peers, my fans, my friends and family.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

Second chances, miracles, angels, faith and religion all promise us a way of doing things better to smooth over the regrets and hope we make better decisions in the future. We all want to become better than who we are now, and we're all continuing to know ourselves better.

I believe if we have something that we love to do, that can save our lives. That can get us through.