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,...
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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.
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Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
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In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary
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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier
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We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.
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Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.
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They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.
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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.
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I've come to see conspiracy theories as the refuge of those who have lost their natural curiosity and ability to cope with change.
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When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.
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The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.