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Getting what you want doesn't make you happy. Having doesn't make you happy: appreciating does. Happiness is more about appreciation than acquisition.

—Katherine Center in Happiness for Beginners

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Katherine Sherar Pannill Center (born March 4, 1972) is an American author of contemporary fiction.

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And here, after all that, is what I have come to believe about beauty: Laughter is beautiful. Kindness is beautiful. Cellulite is beautiful. Softness and plumpness and roundness are beautiful. It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. The soft tummy of a woman is a miracle of nature. Beauty comes from tenderness. Beauty comes from variety, from specificity, from the fact that no person in the world looks exactly like anyone else. Beauty comes from the tragedy that each person's life is destined to be lost to time.

—Katherine Center in Everyone is Beautiful

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