Katie Quotes

You know, Katie Couric is one of my favorite people.

The mind usually says, “I know, I know, I know.” But the “don’t-know mind” is where wisdom lives.

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

The world is what you believe it to be, and it changes as you change.

Who would you be without your story?

If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

Seeking love keeps you from the awareness that you already have it—that you are it.

all the advice you ever gave your partner is for you to hear

You are what exists before all stories.

The miracle of love comes to you in the presence of the uninterpreted moment. If you are mentally somewhere else, you miss real life.

When you srgue with reality, you lose, but only 100% of the time.

All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.

We don't attach to people or to things; we attach to uninvestigated concepts that we believe to be true in the moment.

An unquestioned mind is the world of suffering.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

I love what I think, and I'm never tempted to believe it.

It's difficult to seek other people's love. It's deadly. In seeking it you lose what is genuine. This is the prison we create for ourselves as we seek what we already have.

Personalities don't love. They want something.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness.

If someone says, "Katie, you are out of order," over something I've said, or, "Katie, you are wrong," if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

I stare at her, as dumbstruck as if she'd just admitted she's a Scientologist with an invitation to join Tom and Katie on the spaceship when it shows up.

Thoughts are just what is. They appear. They're innocent. They're not personal.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.

The world is nothing but my perception of it. I see only through myself. I hear only through the filter of my story.

When we stop opposing reality, action becomes simple, fluid, kind, and fearless.

The end of suffering happens in this very moment, whether you're watching a terrorist attack or doing the dishes. And compassion begins at home. Because I don't believe my thoughts, sadness can't exist. That's how I can go to the depths of anyone's suffering, if they invite me, and take them by the hand and walk them out of it into the sunlight of reality. I've taken that walk myself.

Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, "Sweetheart, take a look at your thinking in this moment. You're living in a story that isn't true for you." Living a lie is always stressful. And investigating a lie through The Work always leads you back to who you are. Who you are is not an option. You are love. It hurts to believe you're other than who you are, to live any story less than love.

When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic: he liked Katherines. And not Katies or Kats or Kitties or Cathys or Rynns or Trinas or Kays or Kates or, god forbid, Catherines. K-A-T-H-E-R-I-N-E. He had dated 19 girls. All of them had been named Katherine. And all of them- every single solitary one- had dumped him.

I used to sleep on the floor next to the bed, because I believed that I didn't even deserve a bed to sleep in. And then, one morning, a cockroach crawled onto my leg. I looked at it, and suddenly I awoke from a kind of hypnotic trance in which I had been all my life.

We're working very closely with the RNC, hand in glove. I talked to Reince Priebus several times a day. Sean Spicer is here today. Katie Walsh is here often, the chief of staff there. We have a great - that is the party, and we have a great relationship with the party.

You'd think if anyone could charm America into caring about the evening news, it would be Katie Couric, the Tri Delt from Virginia who became America's sweetheart on the 'Today' show. But her ratings have been dismal - she comes in last place every week.

Katie is like my calendar, watching her grow and change. She is growing up so fast, learning to have opinions of her own, learning that I don’t have the answers to everything. And the moment a child begins to understand that, you know you’re in trouble.

You can only see what you believe—nothing else is possible.

Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer".

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you.

There are two names that jump right out to me they are Mariska Hargitay and Katie Holmes. Both of these women are incredibly talented, and also wonderful moms, they would be down on their knees right after a take to play with their kids. They’re beautiful women inside and out, and that’s what inspires me!

Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

I'm sick of the pussies on the right, if I can use that word, they're pathetic. The poll-tested, Republican strategist driven candidate whose job is to try and not get into a battle with the mainstream media and be liked by Katie Couric is a threat to America. It's a clear and present danger to a country that's in steep peril.

A teacher of fear can't bring peace on earth. We have been trying to do it that way for thousands of years. The person who turns inner violence around, the person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is. We are waiting for just one teacher. You're the one.

The only time we suffer is when we believe a thought that argues with what is. When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

They say, "Katie, you're wrong." And if I say, "How dare you say that? I have studied and studied." Or, "I am an expert in" whatever area we're talking about. Or, "No, you are wrong! And I think you're rude!" Or anything like that, and if we don't say it out loud, maybe we think it, but that's stressful. The moment I've defended, in any way, I've started the war.

I watched a Katie Taylor interview, really interesting and then Eddie Hearn barges in! "Oi, hello, apples and pears!" You should be promoting your fighters, not yourself. Technically I'm more of a promoter than you are.

Stress is an alarm clock that lets you know you're attached to something not true for you.

I've heard people say that they cling to their painful thoughts because they're afraid that without them they wouldn't be activists for peace. "If I feel peaceful," they say, "why would I bother taking action at all?"