May Sarton Quotes - 9quotes.com

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
Written by May Sarton
In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.
Written by May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
Written by May Sarton
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.
Written by May Sarton
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
Written by May Sarton
Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.
Written by May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
Written by May Sarton
True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.
Written by May Sarton
Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.
Written by May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
Written by May Sarton
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
Written by May Sarton
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
Written by May Sarton
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Written by May Sarton
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
Written by May Sarton
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Written by May Sarton
Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there.
Written by May Sarton
In the country of pain we are each alone.
Written by May Sarton
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
Written by May Sarton
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
Written by May Sarton
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
Written by May Sarton
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!
Written by May Sarton

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