“Because when everyone else is panicking, when the entire whole world is freaking out -- that's when I get calm.” — Katherine Center Calm Copy Share Image
It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
My goal is to try to be as happy as I can - going through every day just as it is. — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them. — Katherine Center Adversity Copy Share Image
The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be. — Katherine Center Beauty Copy Share Image
“I'd saturate my brain with such an overabundance of gratitude for every little joy around me that I wouldn't have any room… — Katherine Center Envy Copy Share Image
I'd love to paint our roof white - it's so hot down here in Texas! - and I'd love to have a… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
I felt like I had never really heard of a story that reflected the stuff I was going through as a mom.… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you… — Katherine Center Disappointment Copy Share Image
Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful. — Katherine Center Ashes Copy Share Image
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… — Katherine Center Change Copy Share Image
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… — Katherine Center Best things Copy Share Image
“And I was grateful. For all the things that had brought me to this moment, and for every single thing that would… — Katherine Center Blessed Copy Share Image
It's fun to think about plants not just as decorations but as functioning parts of our yard's ecosystem that attract wildlife to… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on… — Katherine Center Adventure Copy Share Image
“I'd tried so hard to make a perfect, untouchable life for myself. But trouble finds you. Tragedy finds you. And we keep… — Katherine Center Hope for the best Copy Share Image
And so my hope for you, good boy, as you grow taller every day, is that you will learn to take good… — Katherine Center Boys Copy Share Image
“Her's what I tell myself now. That it's vital to learn how to make the best of things. That there is no… — Katherine Center Bravery Copy Share Image
“That was the tricky part. You poured inordinate amounts of time and attention and affection into your kids, but the result was… — Katherine Center Cats Copy Share Image
That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new.… — Katherine Center Children Copy Share Image
“Really, when I look back on it, I did exactly what I had set out to do. I changed my life. I… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
“There is no better people-watching than at the airport: the whole world packed into such a tight space, moving fast with all… — Katherine Center Crooked teeth Copy Share Image
“And the way I loved her was like nothing else. This, I decided, was the love all other loves were measured against.… — Katherine Center Background music Copy Share Image
“And in the end, do you ever truly know for sure if you’re lovable? What a question. You don’t. You can’t. Of… — Katherine Center Copy Share Image
There on the sofa, as I nursed Maxie and her eyes slid closed, I said to the girls, 'I think nursing is… — Katherine Center Adults Copy Share Image
“And here, after all that, is what I have come to believe about beauty: Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is… — Katherine Center Beauty Copy Share Image
“Because the truth was, there was a dark underbelly of terror to motherhood. You loved your children with such an overwhelming fierceness… — Katherine Center Children Copy Share Image
