Katherine Center Quotes

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

Step by step, heart to heart, left right left. We all fall down like toy soldiers. Bit by bit, torn apart, we never win.

Before something great happens, everything falls apart. Just hold on long enough to get through the smoke screen.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves.

Everything is still falling apart.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

So what if right now everything is wrong?

When things are shaky and nothing is working, we might realize that we are on the verge of something. We might realize that this is a very vulnerable and tender place, and that tenderness can go either way. We can shut down and feel resentful or we can touch in on that throbbing quality. (9)

We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

It's fun to play somebody who's kind of struggling.

When things don't go your way, never forget who you are, and always remember the bigger picture.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams

Sometimes life is so crazy, you have to go through something to be able to find out what you're supposed to talk about next, and I think that's what happened to me.

I'm not going to wallow in self-pity and not live my life. There are always going to be some falls in life for everybody, no matter what career you have. You have to roll with the punches and keep going.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

It's kind of a test, Mary, and it's the only kind that amounts to anything. When something rotten like this happens, then you have your choice. You start to really be alive, or you start to die. That's all.

I am facing the most difficult thing of my life, my own greatest failure.

... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.

A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Inside and out, Westley's world was ripping apart and he could do nothing but crack along with it.