The+Katie+Theory

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The Katie Theory I am a glass half full. I am still finding myself. I have not reached my full potential. I believe that everyone begins life as a clean slate. Who we become is molded by who we know and where we are. I do not believe in perfection, but in improvement. Adversity is unavoidable; it strengthens us in all aspects of life. It is important to be yourself and to remain an individual. However, isolation from others hinders the development of individuality as well. My purpose in life is yet to be discovered. It will come in time and be fulfilled by who I will become. The most important part of life is not just living, but achieving something while you are living. My goal is to leave my mark on the world, no matter how big or how small. This mark will show that I successfully achieved my purpose.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. You are young now, you are ignorant. It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth. Yet, getting old is a natural process where things are slowing down, and you'll begin to see that the sparkle in your heart and the twinkle in your eyes make you beautiful in a way that's not achievable in youth. This life is like a drop of water in a frying pan, snap of your fingers and you gotta start over again. In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. There is nothing perfect. There is only life. I do not think it is right that you can spend your whole life working for something just to have it taken away.

I read somewhere how important it is in life to not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong. He that ate fastest got most; he that was strongest secured the best place; and few left the trough unsatisfied. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.  I looked upon the scene before me with an utter depression of soul Though the barriers of life seem formidable, we find when we challenge them that, with the crumbling condition of the individual stones they have no will. You will see that I had completely overcome that mysterious emblem which was never once withdrawn and the gathered terrors of a lifetime.

 If a man does not keep pace with his own companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. I prefer to be true to myself, rather then to be false, and incur my own abhorrence. because today you are you, this is truer than true. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.

Speak the truth and speak ‘ever Cost it what it will For we hold these truths to be self-evident, That he who hide the wrong he did Did the wrong thing still. I am gonna rise up Turning mistakes into gold. I hope I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause.  I went to the woods to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. A man's errors are the portals to discovery. All I need is something to keep me moving on. I do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; I seek what they sought.

We do not ride the railroad; it rides upon us. But you, you've come a long way kid. You see with your own eyes and feel with your own heart. And when a long train of abuses bring you to thine eternal resting place, take this sinking boat and point it home. Do not go gentle into that good night. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.



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