Quote

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

Kathleen Norris

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Kathleen Norris
Peace
Master
Masters
Subjects
Joy
Taught
Beauty

More quotes by Kathleen Norris

Image
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.
Kathleen Norris
Image
They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
Kathleen Norris
Image
Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.
Kathleen Norris
Image
I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers.
Kathleen Norris
Image
To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
Kathleen Norris
Image
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.
Kathleen Norris
Image
When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?
Kathleen Norris
Image
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
Kathleen Norris
Image
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
Kathleen Norris
Image
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
Image
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
Kathleen Norris
Image
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
Kathleen Norris
Image
Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.
Kathleen Norris
Image
The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.
Kathleen Norris
Image
I write what I would like to read.
Kathleen Norris
Image
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
Kathleen Norris
Image
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.
Kathleen Norris
Image
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.
Kathleen Norris
Image
I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.
Kathleen Norris
Image
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.
Kathleen Norris