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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To children childhood holds no particular advantage.

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

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

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

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

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

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

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.