197 Quotes by Katherine Center

The crash all those years ago shattered the life I had, but the pieces wound up making a pretty good mosaic. That’s what art is, I suppose: transforming things from what they were into what they could be. My life now, without question, is transformed. Maybe that makes it a work of art.

I had finally come to understand that not getting what you want is actually the trick to it all. Because not getting what you want forces you to appreciate what you already have.

Isn’t there enough misery in the world? Do I really have to spend my leisure time absorbing more of it?

I had told my story. I had put it into words, at last... Telling the story changed the story for me. Not what had happened – that I could never change – but how I responded to it.

Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.

I guess who you are always seems normal to you because you don’t know what it feels like to be anyone else.

This was a moment in time that was already lost.

We had both moved on. We could both be okay at the same time. We weren’t on a seesaw, for Pete’s sake! There was plenty of okay to go around.

Choosing to love – despite all the ways that people let you down, and disappear, and break your heart. Knowing everything we know about how hard life is and choosing to love, anyway... That’s not weakness, that’s courage.