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 instrument of grace.
For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.
A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.
Excellence costs a great deal.
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.
Most people have to talk so they won't hear.
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.
I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last. That is what is strange - that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in w...
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.
The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.
The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.
Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?
Loneliness is the poverty of self solitude is the richness of self.
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