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May Sarton

"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."

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"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."

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"Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies."

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"Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature."

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"The Moon always finds an opportunity to turn our attention from the ground beneath our feet to the sky above our head!"

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"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."

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"It is spring, let us dance and dream with flowers. Let us sing and enjoy the trees."

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"Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers."
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"Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness."
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"The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind."
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"May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters."
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"The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters."
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"True feeling justifies whatever it may cost."
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"No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable."
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"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being."
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"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."
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"In the country of pain we are each alone."
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