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“Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.”
-- May Sarton

#Love #Inspirational #Flower
“The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.”
-- May Sarton

#Opposites #Mind #Certain
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
-- May Sarton

#Life #Patience #Nature
“I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. A day when one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing one can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room.”
-- May Sarton

#Light #Important #Lines
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
-- May Sarton

#Inspirational #Dream #Real
“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”
-- May Sarton

#Artist #Self #Joy
“One does not "find oneself" by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.”
-- May Sarton

#Being Yourself #Discipline #Routine
“The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.”
-- May Sarton

#Light #Trying #Rooms
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
-- May Sarton

#Loneliness #Being Alone #Self
“Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!”
-- May Sarton

#Baby #Thinking #Months
“Most people have to talk so they won't hear.”
-- May Sarton

#People
“If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine--why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity (because they are not themselves at the center of creation, cannot bear children) that a woman writer of genius evokes murderous rage, must be brushed aside with a sneer as 'irrelevant'?”
-- May Sarton

#Art #Children #Book
“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
-- May Sarton

#Letting Go #Nature #Pain
“A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.”
-- May Sarton

#Death #Failure #Loss
“Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.”
-- May Sarton

#Crush #Light #Perception
“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”
-- May Sarton

#Feelings #Cost #May
“Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.”
-- May Sarton

#Opposites #Giving #Want
“A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.”
-- May Sarton

#Home #House #Doe
“I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope and is always thrilling.”
-- May Sarton

#Autumn #Long #October
“I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
-- May Sarton

#Letting Go #Pain #Fall
“Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.”
-- May Sarton

#Baby #Genius #Forget
“I am not a greedy person except about flowers and plants, and then I become fanatically greedy.”
-- May Sarton

#Flower #Garden #Greedy
“People are always talking about the joys of youth-but, oh, how youth can suffer!”
-- May Sarton

#Talking #People #Joy
“There are some griefs so loud/They could bring down the sky/And there are griefs so still/None knows how deep they lie.”
-- May Sarton

#Lying #Grief #Sky
“Read between the lines.Then meet me in the silence if you can.”
-- May Sarton

#Silence #Lines #Between The Lines
“What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.”
-- May Sarton

#Too Much #Haste #Expecting
“Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
-- May Sarton

#Grace #Gardening #Instruments
“The ambience here is order and beauty. That is what frightens me when I am first alone again. I feel inadequate. I have made an open place, a place for meditation. What if I cannot find myself inside it?”
-- May Sarton

#Beauty #Order #Meditation
“We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.”
-- May Sarton

#Fighting #Understanding #Growth
“I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.”
-- May Sarton

#Spring #Believe #Loss

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