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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
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May Sarton
Age: 83 †
Born: 1912
Born: May 3
Died: 1995
Died: July 16
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May Eleanor Sarton
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Old age is not an illness, it is a timeless ascent. As power diminishes, we grow toward the light.
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.
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Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.
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For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
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I tell the gods are still alive / And they are not consoling.
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