"When you are unhappy, is there anything more……" — Kathleen Norris
"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"
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31 Quotes by Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris has 31 quotes on this site.
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Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is…
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Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down.…
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The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a…
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
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I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
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When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story…
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Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are…
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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day…
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
— Pearl Bailey
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
— Joseph Addison
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
— Phillips Brooks
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but…
— Akhenaton
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low,…
— Henry Highland Garnet
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you…
— John Hay
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
— George Bernard Shaw
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