May Sarton Quotes

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• It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it -… Any
• It is dark now. The snow is deep blue and the ocean nearly black. It is time for some music. Black
• 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… All
• Deep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures. Deep
• I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward Age
• Fighting dragons is my holy joy. Dragons
• Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. Absurd
• So let the world go, but hold fast to joy. Fast
• When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they… All
• It feels a long way up and down from zero. Down
• It is a waste of time to see people who have only a social surface to show. I will make every effort to find out… Cross
• Gardening is an instrument of grace. Gardening
• The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we… Afraid
• In the garden the door is always open into the holy. Always Open
• For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was. Age
• Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially… Age
• It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it. Age
• Does one come to enjoy even the hardships that help make one the person one is? Or is it that the past becomes a legend… Becomes
• Without anxiety life would have very little savor. Anxiety
• We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest. Afraid

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