"I just don’t understand how you can get so much comfort from a religion whose language does so much harm.”…I realized that what troubled me most was her use of the word “comfort,” so in my reply I add..."
- Kathleen Norris
"All that is necessary is to accept the impossible do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable."
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
"None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives."
"One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter."
"Hate is all a lie there is no truth in hate."
"Friendship is an art and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it."
"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. ... You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that..."