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It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures.

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Katherine Center
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 4
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Katherine Sherar Pannill Center
Adventurous
Vivid
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You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.
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Look for beauty in everything.
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The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.
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People are always beautiful when you love them.
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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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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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There is no question that the objects that surround us impact our experience of the world.
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All my main characters are people I'd love to sit around having coffee with. They are people who will tell you honestly about the things that scare them and worry them and trouble them. Because those moments of connection between women-when they really decide to be honest with each other about their lives-are some of the best things in life.
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Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.
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It's always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted.
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We are at our finest when we take care of each other.
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The eyes see everything through the heart.
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I guess that's the upside of not being young anymore... You know from experience that the struggle always leads, in some way, to something better.
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That's what just hit me: How you really can't have everything. You have to give up the old to get the new. You can't be the child and the mom at the same time. You can't be your young self and your old self at the same time. You can't know what you know now and feel the way you did then. You can't, you can't, you can't.
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We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.
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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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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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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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Success is doing the right thing for who you are.
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