Some of the things I've learned in life, I feel, are worth sharing. "Give like breathing and you'll find you can fly without falling." ~Kat Day "You are the master of your own fate. Change the way you think and you can begin to change the world." ~K. Day, 2014 "We find ourselves so often in the most unlikely of places, we who make it our life's purpose to seek those things invisible to the eye. Count yourself among the lowly, or raise yourself among the saints...all are thus always and in all ways. What matters is that you never tire of learning." ~K. Day, 2018 "You have to be comfortable with your own darkness. And you have to play with your inner child as much as possible. This is a crucial ingredient for happiness. Yes, you're going to feel EVERYTHING...but everything is also going to be okay. Trust that nothing is concrete and the only thing that tethers us to anything is choice." ~K. Day, 2015 "Put your sharing pants on. Spend time, not money. Don't forget to put on your heart, every day...right there on your sleeve where it belongs. Laugh often, cry when it comes, and help where, when and who you can. These are, for me, the basic principles of a sound and whole life." ~ K. Day, 2015 "When we float on the brim of our dreams, we don't need fancy dancing shoes. Just a working pen, good light and to be left to our own design." ~K. Day, 2015 "The trouble with being enchanted is that most people will look at you and want to size you up. This frustrates them when they realize they can't quite put a finger on you. Relish it. This inherent weirdness; it's your shield. People hardly notice greatness when they're in the same room with it. That just means you have to shine twice as bright." ~K. Day, 2016 "A genius is merely a more 'aware' fool who keeps notes." ~K. Day, 2015 (with love - to Ivan - from one "genius" to another.) "You are absolutely perfect just as you are, for every moment that you make sure to do the best you can, until you know better. And when you know better, you do better. ~K. Day, 2014 "Life is beautiful, time goes too fast, giving's my favorite and people are worth it." ~K. Day, 2015 "We are too often unaware of the pieces of ourselves we leave behind. Sometimes it takes a loving friend to remind us. We are, each of us, a treasure. And our presence is treasured, whether in the moment or in the delicate ways we linger." ~K. Day, 2015 "You are missed infinitely more than you are told...and loved even more than that." ~K. Day, 2014 "...for we are all of us parents of our own creations, who call ourselves artists. Equally critical, devoted and adoring of what we create, and in fostering the birth of our ideas, we guide those impacted by it." ~K. Day "Be kind. And if you cannot be kind, then be sure the force you exert comes from love and seeks only to help, not harm." ~ K. Day, 2015 "Jealous hateful people will always censor that which they do not understand. They are under the impression that their opinion will make others crawl under a rock and go away. They are too blinded by the shadows of their own rock to realize that others are too busy dancing in the sun to pay heed to their discontent. Censorship is overrated. There is a beautiful place for every creature here in this world. And you can bet there will always be a hurt person attempting to make it ugly. Don't let that make you lose a beat or miss a step. There is magic in avoiding harmful bullshit." ~K. Day, 2015 "You can be proud of yourself for being clever for a moment, but don't dwell. A true genius knows he knows nothing." ~K. Day, 2015 "Opinions are overrated. Freedom is a state of mind. And love wins as long as there is someone alive to notice." ~K. Day, 2015 "Dare the impossible dreams. Forgive the unforgivable. Do the unthinkable." ~K. Day, 2014 "Try on a new pair of eyes every day. And change your eyes for every new situation. Good, bad, these things always depend on where we're standing. What is good for the hunter is not good for the deer. It's only by de-fragmenting ourselves over and over and peeling back the layers of all we perceive that we are able to exist in a way that honors our own existence and the gifts of everything around us." ~K. Day, 2015 "The noble heart can be observed through the impact it has made on those it has touched." ~K. Day, 2014 "No matter your pain, there will always be others around you who hurt more, are repressed more, have less, etc. Remember that everyone has a story. And you can be anything in theirs. Choose to be a force that helped instead of hurt." ~K. Day, 2014 "When the animals begin to flourish again, when the trees are free to grow to their full height and not valued only for their lumber, when the rains fall free of chemicals, surely then we will all have come 'home' to our truest selves again." ~K. Day, 2015 "Heroes are measured by the fullness of their story and hardly noticed in the moment." ~K. Day, 2015 "Standing in the light doesn't mean you should never fight. It means knowing what to fight for even if you’re the only one standing." ~K. Day, 2015
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AuthorPresently my works are published here on my official website The Alchemist and the Butterfly and have been printed and published a few times in anthologies and magazines, two of which can be found in The Library of Congress (The earliest of which from when I was 14). Just a few of my most notable quotes..."Show me where grows the wildest parts of you. It's there I will plant my message."
~ K. Day, 2016 "And just like that, she decided to make each scar count, every shortcoming an unplanned miracle, every broken seam a window... And in an instant she was changed forever." ~K. Day, 2017 "When your whole world is upside down, just learn to walk on your hands. At least your feet are in the clouds. After all, isn't that as good as flying?" ~K. Day, 2017 "May the ripples of my good deeds be such that those who know my name will see me dancing on the edge of their thoughts, even long after my body is gone." ~K. Day, 2015 "He who leaves himself behind wears a different sort of crown." ~K. Day, 2017 "Artists tend to dig our own graves with our tongues... we passionately lack the ability to hold them when we see truth." ~K. Day, 2014 "People underestimate the POWER of transparency, the triumph of exposure, the honor in openness." ~K. Day, 2015 "We birth our ideas, nurture and then send them out into the world. Very much so are our works our children, we who are the artists and the thinkers and the scientists... there is an innate understanding that once we release them, they no longer belong to us. We have to be willing to let them go. And if we prepared them well, surely what comes back to us will sound like praises and feels not so dissimilar from the way a parent feels, swollen with pride for their children." ~K. Day, 2015 "The greatest story ever told is us. It's all of us. Never stop telling it." ~K. Day, 2014 "My heroes don't wear capes; it would just get in the way of their wings." ~Kat Day, 2013 "Growing up, I was the little girl with unicorns on my bed and skeletons in my closet." ~K. Day, 2014 "I was 19 and I already knew who I was." ~K. Day, 2011 "Art's voice hasn't gotten stronger...but I think more people are listening. And that's the perfect time to show them a mirror." ~K. Day, 2015 "Don't lean against mirrors. You might fall in. Always avoid cracks in the ground. Don't linger in doorways or walk under ladders. And never wear crosses unless you're sure a vampire is stalking you." ~K. Day, 2015 {satirical excerpt from a work in progress} "I'd sooner chase a thousand adventures with you than admit to being an adult for one hour on a good day. You slay the dragons - I'll do the housework. It's a good trade." ~K. Day, 2012 "If we wear our rain boots when we wade through our dreams, how will we ever forget we have feet? How will we remember we can fly? Caution is over-rated." ~K. Day, 2015 "Sometimes you can see yourself falling a split second before it all comes crashing down around your ankles...and sometimes, you don't want to stop falling." ~K. Day, 1999 "The woman is a ferocious beast. She shines so bright it hurts to look too close. Yet her bones are like glass, her heart light as air. Her words are like roots that meander through the neglected places of the mind and her tongue is only sharp when their pourage is too cold." ~K. Day, 2015 "We'll ultimately discover that we are little more than figments of our own imaginations." ~K. Day, 2015 "When we have all forgotten how to be human, we should ask the animals. They have always been best at reminding us who we really are." ~K. Day "Maybe we should wear our hearts on strings so we don't get our boots wet... No? It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense to tiptoe around love either. Real love is ugly beautiful messy. We have to learn to appreciate the mess." ~K. Day, 2015 "For all that is a part of me, for all of which I am comprised, I am grateful and hope to honor that through my gentleness toward myself and the world around me." ~K. Day, 2015 "I'm not afraid to die over the truth. I'm afraid to live in a lie." ~K. Day, 2013 "And they took from him his golden crown which shined so bright it taunted the darkness and shadowy things. They covered it with dung and sticks and placed it back upon his head saying, 'See what has been done here...we have saved you, the darkness will forget you.' But then so did all the world. Woe to the day that evil determined no bird shall keep for himself his own gilded wings." ~K. Day, 2015 "Remember, there is always light in dark places. So long as people draw breath, they will search for their truest selves, which is love." ~K. Day, 2015 "Never stop shining, even through times of tears and bitter words. For it is often when we are our most vulnerable that we are also at our most beautiful. And what an honor for all of those who are allowed to witness you rise, again and again. The breath of love propel your life always forward, the heart of a mother and a father beat ever steady in your chest, and may your memory long surpass your body through the mouths of those who knew you." ~ K. Day, 2015 "I will confound them. I will rattle their gilded cages and shake their very foundations. I will make myself so present the world will never be the same again." ~K. Day, 2015 "Expectation... I learned it can steal one's joy. This applies just as much to life as to tending the land. We understand that the seed is designed to grow and what elements should facilitate for that growth. But nature is beautifully imperfect and it's taught me that each seed has it's own internal clock, which differs even from its brother's. The plants are not so unlike us. Expectations kill everything. We must observe and participate in a constant state of childlike wonderment if we wish to know the true potential of nature." ~K. Day, 2016 "And then she told them all they had to do all along was believe in themselves. It was the only way." ~K. Day, 2016 Archives
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