Katherine Center Quotes

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.

Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.

It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.

Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true — a hundred times over — of love.

There is no tenderness without bravery.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.

My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is.

We are at our finest when we take care of each other.

It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter.

Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

People are always beautiful when you love them.

Success is doing the right thing for who you are.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

Look for beauty in everything.

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

The eyes see everything through the heart.

We all carry our mothers inside us.

You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.

I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.

I don't want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.

The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.