197 Quotes by Katherine Center

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.

If you never let yourself want anything,” I said, trying to explain it without saying it, “then you’re never disappointed.

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.

The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.

Barni loved talking about the dresses. "Aren't they huge? I've just always been this way," she said, twirling a little. "Just born healthy, I guess."Oh, God. I hated her so much.

I told myself before this trip that I would appreciate everything,' she said. 'It's my battle cry: Appreciate Everything.

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.

Needing to find reasons to live had forced me to build a life worth living.

I had a purpose. I had a reason to take a shower every morning. I had a reason to take care of myself. More than that, I was figuring out how doing something for other people could - in fact - be doing something for yourself. Amazing.