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> [We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/we-think-we-are-unique-special-and-deserving-of-happiness-but-we-are/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

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## More by Sara Maitland

> [Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/natural-history-is-not-taught-in-seminary-this-is-curious-as-most/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/being-alone-in-our-present-society-raises-an-important-question-about/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound: when people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/now-fairy-stories-are-at-risk-too-like-the-forests-padraic-column-has/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [ “The whole tradition of \[oral\] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to the extent… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/the-whole-tradition-of-oral-story-telling-is-endangered-by-modern/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [ “Forests to the \[early\] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/forests-to-the-early-northern-european-peoples-were-dangerous-and/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/my-father-taught-me-to-be-independent-and-cocky-and-free-thinking-but/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological diversity, their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/i-believe-that-the-great-stretches-of-forests-in-northern-europe-with/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/of-course-we-also-live-in-a-world-of-great-beauty-sacrificial-and/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [Art is an artificial organization of experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/art-is-an-artificial-organization-of-experience/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [“Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active imaginations, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/remember-that-it-is-good-for-children-to-be-bored-sometimes-children/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [ \[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number of sizes.\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/georg-cantor-was-the-first-to-prove-that-there-could-be-a-series-of/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/if-you-tell-people-enough-times-that-they-are-unhappy-incomplete/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/we-know-that-solitude-is-almost-a-necessity-for-creativity-and-the/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction. Owen believed in extinction but not evolution. Lamarck believed in evolution but not extinction. Darwin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/wilberforce-did-not-believe-in-either-evolution-or-extinction-owen/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

> [We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sara-maitland/we-think-we-are-unique-special-and-deserving-of-happiness-but-we-are/)

[Sara Maitland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sara-maitland/)

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