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 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.

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

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.