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In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

Kathleen Norris
Pain, Regret, Loss
Kathleen Thompson Norris (1931). “Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women”

The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

Kathleen Norris
Crucible, Desert, West
Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Kathleen Norris
Life, Men, Eternity
Kathleen Norris (1981). “The middle of the world”

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom.

Kathleen Norris
Change, Kind, Prairie
Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

Kathleen Norris
Book, Reading, Shining
Kathleen Thompson Norris (1955). “The Best of Kathleen Norris”, Garden City, N.Y. : Hanover House, 1955 .

They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

Kathleen Norris
Pregnancy, Fruit, Melons

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening. . . . I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books.

Kathleen Norris
Children, Book, Pride

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

Kathleen Norris
Women, Memorable, Unhappy

To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference. While consumer culture speaks only to preferences, treating even whims as needs to be granted (and the sooner the better), monastics sense that this pandering to delusions of self-importance weakens the true self, and diminishes our ability to distinguish desires from needs. It's a price they're not willing to pay.

Kathleen Norris
Humility, Exercise, Self
Kathleen Norris (1997). “The Cloister Walk”, p.25, Penguin

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