Quote by May Sarton Download Open image ““What we have not has made us what we are. Those surface consolations have to go.”” — May Sarton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“Everything we have, everything we are, is a gift. How can we judge and shame ourselves if this is true?” — Anna White Copy Share Image
“It seems that what we’ve overcome is what ultimately molded us into the people that we are instead of where we’ve come from.” — Jay Crownover Copy Share Image
“What we have isn’t something we made. It’s something that existed before we even met.” — C.D. Reiss Copy Share Image
“The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.” — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to… — Romans 12 5 Copy Share Image
“It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another. Since” — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“Life is about disappointments. Without the pain, how will we appreciate the good stuff?” — Bijou Hunter Copy Share Image
“Things that change and are lost, that is what's worth preserving.” — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“I felt pain like an assault, The old pain again When the world thrusts itself inside, When we have to take in the outside,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For to be desperate is to discover strength. / We die of comfort and by conflict live. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“I see you with that shell Held to your sensitive abstracted ear, Hunting the ocean’s rumor till you hear it well, Until you can… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen. — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I long for the bulbs to arrive, for the early autumn chores are melancholy, but the planting of bulbs is the work of hope… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton Copy Share Image
