“Poets and monks... We're both sort of peripheral to the world.”
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Famous Kathleen Norris Quotes
Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women
Source: Amazing Grace
Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and
“Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.”
Source: Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
“This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.”
Source: Amazing Grace
“I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?”
Source: The Cloister Walk
Source: The Cloister Walk
Source: The Cloister Walk
“Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.”
Source: Saturday's Child
Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and
“When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.”