Quotes of Kathleen Norris - somelinesforyou

“ Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Peace – that was the other name for home. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human and die, and Who desires to be present to us in our ordinary circumstances. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy? ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

“ Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable. ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

“ Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ 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. ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

“ Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

“ Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal… ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ It isn't the things that happen to us, it's the things we think are going to happen to us that drive us almost crazy. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Changing husbands is only changing troubles. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Changing husbands is only changing troubles. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

“ 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. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Changing husbands is only changing troubles. ”

- Kathleen Norris

“ Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal… ”

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris

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

- Kathleen Norris
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