197 Quotes by Katherine Center

You can’t ask someone to love you or be there for you or do the right thing – and you certainly can’t guilt them into it. Either they will or they won’t.

It’s strange that I could have laughed so hard under those circumstances, during that very dark moment in my life. But I’ve decided sorrow can make things funnier. Endure enough hardship, and you start really needing a good laugh.

You can’t fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them.

I’m at my very best when things are at their very worst.

You get one life, and it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings.

Life is always a struggle between who you are and who you’d like to be. It’s always a negotiation between how you want it and how it is. There’s no changing that.

Qualifications,” he said, “pale in the face of confidence.

That’s the thing you don’t know – that you can’t know until life has genuinely beaten the crap out of you: I am better for it all. I am better for being broken.

You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship.