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Top 25 Laura McKowen Quotes (2025 Update)

Laura McKowen Quote: “This is the singular, hard truth I come up against every day: I am the only one responsible for my experience. I decide what I let in; I decide who I let in; I decide how to perceive things; I choose it all.”

1. “This is the singular, hard truth I come up against every day: I am the only one responsible for my experience. I decide what I let in; I decide who I let in; I decide how to perceive things; I choose it all.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “There is a life that is calling you forward, begging you to meet its eye, to glimpse its vision for you. You can get only so far by running away from what you do not want. Eventually you will have to turn toward what you do. You will have to run toward a bigger yes.”

2. “There is a life that is calling you forward, begging you to meet its eye, to glimpse its vision for you. You can get only so far by running away from what you do not want. Eventually you will have to turn toward what you do. You will have to run toward a bigger yes.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “You are always with me. You are never alone. And everything I have is yours. You are granted all the love in the universe simply because you exist, not because you are good. Love was never yours to lose – you cannot lose it. It will never let you go.”

3. “You are always with me. You are never alone. And everything I have is yours. You are granted all the love in the universe simply because you exist, not because you are good. Love was never yours to lose – you cannot lose it. It will never let you go.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “If something is keeping you from being fully present and showing up in your life the way you want, then deciding to change that thing is an actual matter of life and death, you know? It’s the difference between existing and actually living.”

4. “If something is keeping you from being fully present and showing up in your life the way you want, then deciding to change that thing is an actual matter of life and death, you know? It’s the difference between existing and actually living.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “Forming a new life is a really, really big deal. As John O’Donohue says in his blessing called “For the Interim Time,” It is difficult and slow to become new. It’s supposed to be difficult It’s supposed to take everything you have. It’s supposed to take longer than you want and to change you, completely. This often won’t feel good when it’s happening, but nothing worth having ever does.”

5. “Forming a new life is a really, really big deal. As John O’Donohue says in his blessing called “For the Interim Time,” It is difficult and slow to become new. It’s supposed to be difficult It’s supposed to take everything you have. It’s supposed to take longer than you want and to change you, completely. This often won’t feel good when it’s happening, but nothing worth having ever does.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “We are all magnificent monsters, capable of everything – all the light and every bit of the dark.”

6. “We are all magnificent monsters, capable of everything – all the light and every bit of the dark.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “This is the singular, hard truth I come up against every day: I am the only one responsible for my experience.”

7. “This is the singular, hard truth I come up against every day: I am the only one responsible for my experience.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “And here is the thing we must know about our things if we are ever going to survive them: We believe we can bury them, when the truth is, they’re burying us. The will always bury us, eventually.”

8. “And here is the thing we must know about our things if we are ever going to survive them: We believe we can bury them, when the truth is, they’re burying us. The will always bury us, eventually.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “Forget forever. It doesn’t exist, anyway. As Eckhart Tolle also said, “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living,” and that’s exactly what you’re doing when now is swallowed by projections of forever. Nothing in the future exists yet. But anything is possible right now. Including the thing you think you cannot do.”

9. “Forget forever. It doesn’t exist, anyway. As Eckhart Tolle also said, “It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living,” and that’s exactly what you’re doing when now is swallowed by projections of forever. Nothing in the future exists yet. But anything is possible right now. Including the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “One stranger who understands your experience exactly will do for you what hundreds of close friends and family who don’t understand cannot. It is the necessary palliative for the pain or stretching into change. It is the cool glass of water in hell.”

10. “One stranger who understands your experience exactly will do for you what hundreds of close friends and family who don’t understand cannot. It is the necessary palliative for the pain or stretching into change. It is the cool glass of water in hell.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “Ultimately, I wanted to be free more than I wanted to be safe. And writing was freeing me.”

11. “Ultimately, I wanted to be free more than I wanted to be safe. And writing was freeing me.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “Loneliness started to abate only when I began to really let people in and tell them the truth, and that took a long, long time. The antidote to loneliness wasn’t just being around others or sharing common ground. It was intimacy.”

12. “Loneliness started to abate only when I began to really let people in and tell them the truth, and that took a long, long time. The antidote to loneliness wasn’t just being around others or sharing common ground. It was intimacy.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “Things like approval seeking, people-pleasing, not voicing my opinions, and avoiding conflict at any cost – these were all dishonesty masked as something sweeter and more socially acceptable.”

13. “Things like approval seeking, people-pleasing, not voicing my opinions, and avoiding conflict at any cost – these were all dishonesty masked as something sweeter and more socially acceptable.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “Intimacy is having a kind, compassionate witness to your truest thoughts and feelings.”

14. “Intimacy is having a kind, compassionate witness to your truest thoughts and feelings.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “It’s the difference between existing and actually living.”

15. “It’s the difference between existing and actually living.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “The truest story – the one that will always be truest – is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am always trying to do better. My guess is that you are, too.”

16. “The truest story – the one that will always be truest – is that I am a human being, being human. Sometimes, I am my best self. Sometimes, not so much. But goddamn, I am trying to do better. I am always trying to do better. My guess is that you are, too.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “I came to realize that this is what it really means to be alive – to not look away from any of it – and that all I was really doing before was pretending: floating through my days half-numb, half-involved, half-awake, thinking I was really living when in fact I was missing it all.”

17. “I came to realize that this is what it really means to be alive – to not look away from any of it – and that all I was really doing before was pretending: floating through my days half-numb, half-involved, half-awake, thinking I was really living when in fact I was missing it all.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “The process has been the gift.”

18. “The process has been the gift.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “The same is true for all of us when it comes to our things. We have to pick a side. If we ever want out of purgatory, we have to decide if we are going back to a life of denial and secrecy and hiding and gripping onto the thing we do not know how to live without, or if we are going to take a stab at doing a thing we have never done before.”

19. “The same is true for all of us when it comes to our things. We have to pick a side. If we ever want out of purgatory, we have to decide if we are going back to a life of denial and secrecy and hiding and gripping onto the thing we do not know how to live without, or if we are going to take a stab at doing a thing we have never done before.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “The effort of putting words to my experiences, of trying to describe things as accurately as possible, felt like it was saving my life. One sentence at a time, I was writing my way to an understanding and a grace I could not otherwise reach. I breathed power into a new life for myself and also slowly started to make sense of what I’d never been able to before.”

20. “The effort of putting words to my experiences, of trying to describe things as accurately as possible, felt like it was saving my life. One sentence at a time, I was writing my way to an understanding and a grace I could not otherwise reach. I breathed power into a new life for myself and also slowly started to make sense of what I’d never been able to before.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “I wanted one version of me in the world, instead of the dozens there were.”

21. “I wanted one version of me in the world, instead of the dozens there were.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “My drinking – and whatever it is you do to feel better – was born of a natural impulse to soothe, to connect, to feel love. And although alcohol hadn’t actually delivered those things, it was absolutely yoked to them in my mind. In my heart and body, too. It was just what I knew.”

22. “My drinking – and whatever it is you do to feel better – was born of a natural impulse to soothe, to connect, to feel love. And although alcohol hadn’t actually delivered those things, it was absolutely yoked to them in my mind. In my heart and body, too. It was just what I knew.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “It was simple, incredibly difficult, and one of the most exquisite, life-giving things you can ever learn to do: to witness yourself, without judgment, as you struggle to stay.”

23. “It was simple, incredibly difficult, and one of the most exquisite, life-giving things you can ever learn to do: to witness yourself, without judgment, as you struggle to stay.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “The truth is alchemical. It transmutes the bitterness of pain and dishonesty and shame into something else, something we can actually live in and stand on.”

24. “The truth is alchemical. It transmutes the bitterness of pain and dishonesty and shame into something else, something we can actually live in and stand on.”

— Laura McKowen

Laura McKowen Quote: “Snuggling up to my daughter at night, closing another day with a clear conscience, fills me with a gratitude too thick for words.”

25. “Snuggling up to my daughter at night, closing another day with a clear conscience, fills me with a gratitude too thick for words.”

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Laura McKowen Quote: “The place where we pretend, in big ways and in small, that we are something or someone we know in our bones we are not. We can go a long time pretending and thinking we’re doing it right this way, building big, complicated lives on a false foundation. No matter how big and impressive a life you build there, on that island, the crumbling of that life is inevitable.”

26. “The place where we pretend, in big ways and in small, that we are something or someone we know in our bones we are not. We can go a long time pretending and thinking we’re doing it right this way, building big, complicated lives on a false foundation. No matter how big and impressive a life you build there, on that island, the crumbling of that life is inevitable.”

— Laura McKowen

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