I pay very little regard… to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.

About Kathleen Norris

Kathleen Thompson Norris (July 16, 1880 – January 18, 1966) was an American novelist and newspaper columnist. She was one of the most widely read and highest paid female writers in the United States for nearly fifty years, from 1911 to 1959. Norris was a prolific writer who wrote 93...

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

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

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

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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.

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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to.

—John Scalzi

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One man's folly is another man's wife.

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Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain.

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Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

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When a man is ready to marry, he is often not too particular about the lady.

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I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.