Essentials Quote by Kathleen Norris

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

— Kathleen Norris

The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.

— Kathleen Norris

“At its Greek root, "to believe" simply means "to give one's heart to." Thus, if we can determine what it is we give our…

— Kathleen Norris

In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary

— Kathleen Norris

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally…

— Kathleen Norris

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

— Kathleen Norris

“I was vaguely attracted to both library science and accounting, for the way that these disciplines impose order on chaos.”

— Kathleen Norris

Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate

— Kathleen Norris

“Well, they tell us meat isn't good for us anyway!”

— Kathleen Norris

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months…

— Kathleen Norris

The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . .…

— Kathleen Norris

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

— Kathleen Norris