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1 " I had a purpose. I had a reason to take a shower every morning. I had a reason to take care of myself. More than that, I was figuring out how doing something for other people could - in fact - be doing something for yourself. Amazing. "
― Katherine Center , How to Walk Away
2 " Needing to find reasons to live had forced me to build a life worth living. "
3 " When you don't know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else. "
4 " It's the trying that heals you. That's all you have to do. Just try. "
5 " More than anything, I know that you just have to choose to make the best of things. You get one life, and it only goes forward. And there really are all kinds of happy endings. "
6 " I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn't have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship. [...] Because that's all we can do: Carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can. "
7 " Because that’s all we can do: carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can. Life is always, always both. "
8 " You can’t ask someone to love you or be there for you or do the right thing—and you certainly can’t guilt them into it. Either they will or they won’t. "
9 " The worst thing about sleeping, after something terrible happens, is that sleeping makes you forget. Which is fine, until you wake up. "
10 " I have a theory that we are at our meanest when we feel threatened. "
11 " Dying is easy. It's not dying that's hard. "
12 " Exhaustion is a friend to the grieving. "
13 " The greater our capacity for sorrow becomes, the greater our capacity for joy. "
14 " You can't fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them. "
15 " I'm always amazed at how fast siblings can warp-speed into a state of rage. It's like they keep everything they were ever angry about growing up shoved into an overstuffed emotional closet, and at moments like these, it takes about two seconds to swing the door open and start an avalanche. "
16 " I made a choice to get inspired. I made lists of reasons to feel hopeful. I forced myself to look at the sky and see green. "
17 " It’s the trying that heals you. That’s all you have to do. Just try. "
18 " You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship. "
19 " The crash all those years ago shattered the life I had, but the pieces wound up making a pretty good mosaic. That's what art is, I suppose: transforming things from what they were into what they could be. My life now, without question, is transformed. Maybe that makes it a work of art. "
20 " If you think of human emotions as music, then mine were like an orchestra with no conductor. "