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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About Katherine Center

Portrait of Katherine Center

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

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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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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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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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Always choose yourself first. Women are very socialized to choose other people. If you put yourself first, it's this incredible path you can forge for yourself.

—Rebecca Traister in All the Single Ladies

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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

—Edmund Hillary

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Neither blame or praise yourself.

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Real love is selfless.

—Yvonne Woon in Dead Beautiful

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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