Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson Norriswas a popular American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Her stories appeared in the Atlantic, The American Magazine, McClure's, Everybody's, Ladies' Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion, and she wrote 93 novels, many of which were best sellers. She used her fiction to promote values including the sanctity of marriage, the nobility of motherhood,...
change few knows months next none opportunity tenor unexpected waiting
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.
hate truth
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
accept bear easier life necessary
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.
accept bear easier life 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.
solitude
There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.
book good happier knowledge
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier
girl trouble
Get a girl in trouble, then get her out again.
pain regret loss
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
pregnancy fruit melons
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
husband trouble
Changing husbands is only changing troubles.
children giving may
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
moving heart hatred
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun barely moves, if at all, and . . . he instills in the heart of the monk a hatred for the place, a hatred for his very life itself.
goal people strive
I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers…
winter years needs
There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.