Quotes by Kathleen Norris

There is a divinity that shapes our ends - but we can help by listening for Its voice.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

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

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

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

Changing husbands is only changing troubles.