Kathleen Norris - Life Quotes

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

Kathleen Norris
Life has a strange way of making us pay for our blunders in the exact coinage we misspent.

Kathleen Norris
Home ought to be our clearing house, the place from which we go forth lessoned and disciplined, and ready for life.

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But somehow one never had time to stop and savor the taste of life as the stream of it flowed by. It would be good to find some quiet inlet where the waters were still enough for reflection, where one might sense the joy of the moment, rather than plan breathlessly for a dozen mingled treats in the future.

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Life is very simple... It merely consists in learning how to accept the impossible, how to do without the indispensable, how to endure the insufferable. What could be easier?

Kathleen Norris
I have discovered that middle-age is not a question of years. It is that moment in life when one realizes that one has exchanged, by a series of subtle shifts and substitutes, the vague and vaporous dreams of youth, for the definite and tangible realization.

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The lover of books is a miner, searching for gold all his life long. He finds his nuggets, his heart leaps in his breast; he cannot believe in his good fortune. Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours. It belongs to no one else; it is not interchangeable.

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Life, although it takes us many years and many tears to discover it, life is only another name for death; they cannot exist independently.

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Her thoughts went on, happy thoughts, yet with an undercurrent of that soberness that is the inevitable fruit of life.

Kathleen Norris
Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Kathleen Norris