Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful. Katherine Center More Quotes by Katherine Center More Quotes From Katherine Center 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. Katherine Center heart beautiful believe We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them. Katherine Center who-we-are struggle faces Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are. Katherine Center smile heartbreak adventure Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs. Katherine Center be-brave brave The eyes see everything through the heart. Katherine Center eye heart Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter. Katherine Center convince matter 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. Katherine Center what-matters disappointment matter We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are. Katherine Center who-we-are stories live-in-the-moment 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. Katherine Center care boys two We're looking for stories that speak to us. We're looking for stories that connect us with something true. But, instead, a lot of the time we get strippers. All I'm saying is, when boys are writing the stories, the percentage of strippers is bound to go up. And real stories about real women kinda don't get written at all. Katherine Center real writing boys Look for beauty in everything. Katherine Center looks It's so easy to think that your strengths don't matter. Katherine Center matter easy thinking We are at our finest when we take care of each other. Katherine Center finest take-care care 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. Katherine Center mother littles believe 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. Katherine Center rolling eye hands Our lives disappear, even as we live them. Katherine Center our-lives disappear The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. Katherine Center human-condition imperfection beauty 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. Katherine Center changing-your-life limits past There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world. Katherine Center objects impact world You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Katherine Center minutes stories writing
