197 Quotes by Katherine Center

The best revenge is marrying a kind hearted guy with a washboard stomach who brings you coffee in bed every morning.

The world keeps hanging on to this idea that love is for the gullible. But nothing could be more wrong. Love is only for the brave.

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.

It's the trying that heals you. That's all you have to do. Just try.

The lived on the mistaken assumption that their lives mattered, that life was essentially fair, that it was all going to wind up happy in the end. I knew what they didn’t—that everything you care about will disappear, that deserving a happy life doesn’t mean you can get one, and that there really is no one in the entire world you can count on but yourself.

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

Whales have a highly evolved language that works like sonar. They have special neurons called spindle cells. Human have them, too, and they’re linked with self-awareness, and compassion, and language. Except whales have had them about fifteen million years longer than we have.

But Beckett, for all his posturing, talked in scribbles. He gave lines of information with gaping spaces in between.

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.