197 Quotes by Katherine Center

Well, for example, happy people are more likely to register joy than unhappy people. So if you take two people who have experienced a day of, say, fifty percent good things and fifty percent bad things, an unhappy person would remember more of the bad.

It’s not the easy moments that define who we are. It’s the hard ones.

Wasn’t that what love was, after all? Saying yes – not just when it was easy, but also when it was hard?

I gave you Jake because you’re headstrong and accident prone, and he’s our medic and I trust him to patch you up. I gave you Jake because you’re the best map reader we’ve got, and he’s damn near blind. And I gave you Jake because you absolutely never believe in yourself – and he finds a way to believe in you every damn day.

Choose joy on purpose.

Ten years I’d simmered in my own self-righteousness, holding my grudge against her as if the only way to win was to stay mad the longest.

I wanted to grab onto him like a life preserver in an empty ocean.

Maybe nobody got a happy ending in the end. Maybe all happiness could ever hope to be was a tiny interruption from sorrow.