Famous Kathleen Norris Quotations

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"Changing husbands is only changing troubles."
by 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."
by 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. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
by Kathleen Norris
"Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."
by Kathleen Norris
"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."
by Kathleen Norris
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
by Kathleen Norris
"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."
by Kathleen Norris
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
by 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."
by Kathleen Norris
"There are men I could spend eternity with. but not this life."
by Kathleen Norris
"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"
by Kathleen Norris
"There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city."
by Kathleen Norris
"... disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future."
by Kathleen Norris
"... wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom."
by Kathleen Norris


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