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Life Quotes by May Sarton
- One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not…
- 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 gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of…
- Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
- It is only when we can believe that we are creating the soul that life has any meaning, but when we can believe it -…
- 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…
- Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
- Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
- For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life.
- If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be?
- Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do…
- We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
- 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…
- May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the…
- 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…
- It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond…
- A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle