Top 200 Katherine Center Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “We are at our finest when we take care of each other.”

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2. “You don’t have to be perfect to be awesome.”

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3. “Look for beauty in everything.”

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4. “Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.”

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5. “People are always beautiful when you love them.”

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6. “The human condition is imperfection. And that’s how it’s supposed to be.”

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7. “What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.”

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8. “There is no tenderness without bravery.”

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9. “We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.”

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10. “The eyes see everything through the heart.”

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11. “Don’t let anyone convince you that love doesn’t matter.”

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12. “We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can’t remember become the story of who we are.”

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13. “We all carry our mothers inside us.”

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14. “Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.”

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15. “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.”

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16. “When you don’t know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.”

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

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18. “I believe women are too hard on themselves. I believe that when you love someone, she becomes beautiful to you. I believe the eyes see everything through the heart. Nothing in the world feels as good as resting them on someone you love.”

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19. “Sometimes there is no way to hold your life together. Sometimes things just have to fall apart.”

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

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21. “You have to be brave with your life, so that others can be brave with theirs.”

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22. “And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good care of yourself, and you will learn to take good care of others-and, someday, you’ll see how those two things are exactly the same.”

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23. “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.”

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24. “And despite everything I know now, I still believe, as I did when I was little, that there is an entire universe of things that my mother knows that I don’t. I still believe that nothing truly bad can ever happen if my mother is around. I know it’s not true. But still. It is true.”

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25. “It’s the trying that heals you. That’s all you have to do. Just try.”

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26. “Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.”

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27. “You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day.”

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28. “Nothing that doesn’t push you past your limits can change your life. It’s true of work, it’s true of parenting, and it’s true – a hundred times over – of love.”

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

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30. “Beauty comes from tenderness.”

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31. “I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.”

— Katherine Center

32. “My goal is to try to be as happy as I can – going through every day just as it is.”

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

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34. “Success is doing the right thing for who you are.”

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35. “If you feel lucky, then you are.”

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36. “The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.”

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37. “It’s more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.”

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38. “It’s vital to learn how to make the best of things.”

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39. “Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that’s actually a kindness of human memory.”

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40. “In fiction, you can be as true as you want. Real life is a different story.”

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41. “It’s so easy to think that your strengths don’t matter.”

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42. “Our lives disappear, even as we live them.”

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43. “I don’t want my kids to be like me. I want them to be better than me.”

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44. “The greater our capacity for sorrow becomes, the greater our capacity for joy.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “It’s my battle cry: Appreciate Everything!”

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47. “You can’t ask someone to love you or be there for you or do the right thing – and you certainly can’t guilt them into it. Either they will or they won’t.”

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48. “It just seems to me there’s enough pain in the world – and not nearly enough pleasure. I guess once you’ve had enough kidney stones, hot candle wax on the nipples seems less appealing.”

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49. “Exhaustion is a friend to the grieving. I was the kind of tired where sleep just reaches out and tugs you into its gentle sea without you ever making a choice.”

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50. “Because that’s all we can do: carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can. Life is always, always both.”

— Katherine Center