197 Quotes by Katherine Center

We don’t fix everything, but we sure do make things better.

I’m not happy because it comes easily to me. I bite and scratch and claw my way toward happiness every day.

I have a theory that we are at our meanest when we feel threatened. People really seem to do their worst when they think you’re out to hurt them, or steal from them, or take something that’s rightfully theirs.

Joyful: The Surprising Power of Ordinary Things to Create Extraordinary Happiness, by Ingrid.

I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn’t have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship.

Yes, the world is full of unspeakable cruelty. But the answer wasn’t to never feel hope, or bliss, or love-but to savor every fleeting, precious second of those feelings when they came.

In some ways, if I’m honest, giving up felt good. It certainly took the pressure off. Staying hopeful was exhausting.

Because you absolutely never believe in yourself – and he finds a way to believe in you every damn day.

You let your grief make you bitter. You let your suffering make you cruel. Want to know what that makes you? A villain. That’s every comic book villain ever! They suffer, and then they inflict suffering on others. Good guys do the opposite. Good guys suffer, too – but they respond by helping.