I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep trying anyway. We hope for the best.

—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband

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About Katherine Center

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Katherine Sherar Pannill Center (born March 4, 1972) is an American author of contemporary fiction.

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Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I woke myself up. I rediscovered passions of every variety. I forced myself to take a little time. I found a way to bring some of who I used to be into who I was.

—Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful

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And here, after all that, is what I have come to believe about beauty: Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is beautiful. Softness and plumpness and roundness are beautiful. It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. The soft tummy of a woman is a miracle of nature. Beauty comes from tenderness. Beauty comes from variety, from specificity, from the fact that no person in the world looks exactly like anyone else. Beauty comes from the tragedy that each person's life is destined to be lost to time.

—Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful

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Getting what you want doesn't make you happy. Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.

—Katherine Center in Happiness for Beginners

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Anything was possible. Everything was uncertain. But I knew one thing for sure: I'd bounced back before, and I would do it again and again and again. Because that's the only choice there is. And as many things as I still had to lose, I had just as many more left to find.

—Katherine Center in The Lost Husband

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It's strange that I could have laughed so hard under those circumstances, during that very dark moment in my life. But I've decided sorrow can make things funnier. Endure enough hardship, and you start really needing a good laugh.

—Katherine Center in How to Walk Away

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More quotations tagged with “trying”

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

—Edith Wharton

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

—G. K. Chesterton

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I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help—and God's.

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

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For no reason I can explain, I began to discover how little it mattered where you are or what anyone does to you. I was sure that what I had done to get there [imprisoned for draft resistance] was right, and somehow the longer I was there, the better I felt.… I felt filled with love for everyone: everyone I knew and everyone I didn't know; for plants, fish, animals; even bankers, generals, prison guards, and lying politicians—everything and everyone. Why did I feel so good? Was it God? Or approaching death? Or just the way life is supposed to be if we weren't so busy trying to make it something else?

—David Dellinger

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