Katherine Center Quotes

I believe in struggle. And I believe that the struggle is beautiful. You have to try it, or you will never know what's beyond it.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

Sometimes good comes through adversity. I would not be who I am today had it not been for the internment, and I like who I am.

I'm still me even after all that's happened.

What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure... I think.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

I was very down as a teenager, very upset because I had gotten hurt in a car accident. But my dad was a source of strength. He used to say, 'It's the character with strength that God gives the most challenges to.' I've thought about that so many times in my life when things didn't go right.

I think it does everybody a lot of good to have a period of no success.

The hardest things in my life have made me who I am.

So once you hit like that place, where everything is stripped from you, everything is taken from you, you really discover who you really are. I discovered that I'm a real hero, that I can deal with that situation, that I can rise up to the challenge.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

It is tough: sometimes the pain that you feel makes you grow.

We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

There is no development of character without resistance, there is no growth of spirituality without overcoming.

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

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.