"I was taught that I had to 'master'……" — Kathleen Norris

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

— Kathleen Norris

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31 Quotes by Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Norris has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is…
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down.…
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a…
Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story…
Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are…
Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day…
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . .…

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More Beauty Quotes

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty;… — David Attenborough
Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an… — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You… — Kevyn Aucoin
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty… — Kevyn Aucoin
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine

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