Quote by Kathleen Norris (1880-1966)

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

• Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

• 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.

• Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

• Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.