Kathleen Norris Quotes (17 Quotes)

There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life.

Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Get a girl in trouble, then get her out again.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Life is easier than you'd think all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Perfection, in a Christian sense, means becoming mature enough to give ourselves to others.

To children childhood holds no particular advantage.

There is a divinity that shapes our ends but we can help by listening for Its voice.

Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.