“ 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. May Sarton
“ 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. May Sarton
“ There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much. May Sarton
“ The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. May Sarton
“ There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. May Sarton
“ 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… May Sarton
“ We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
“ Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe. May Sarton
“ 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. May Sarton
“ No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. May Sarton
“ Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness? May Sarton
“ Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. May Sarton
