Kathleen Norris Famous Quotes
"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."
"In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary."
"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."
"Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state."
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
"If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being."
Kathleen Norris Quotations
"Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change."
Robert Burns
"To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living."
John Henry Newman
"In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."
Alexander Pope
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Kahlil Gibran
"Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."
Robert Albert Bloch
"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."
Andr Maurois
"Relativity applies to physics, not ethics."
Albert Einstein
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
Bob Talbert
It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.
Thomas Mann