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One Quotes by May Sarton
- Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
- A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
- Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
- When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you…
- There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
- I see a certain order in the universe and math is one way of making it visible.
- 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…
- One thing is certain, and I have always known it - the joys of my life have nothing to do with age. They do not…
- The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
- "How does one grow up?" I asked a friend. She answered, "By thinking!"
- 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…
- I suppose real old age begins when one looks backward rather than forward
- 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…
- I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that,…
- One must believe that private dilemmas are, if deeply examined, universal, and so, if expressed, have a human value beyond the private, and one must…
- We can do anything, or almost, but how balanced, magnanimous, and modest one has to be to do anything! And also how patient. It is…
- The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as…
- One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
- A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
- The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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