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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward to reset oneself by an inner compass.

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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I am realizing once and for all the difference as far as I am concerned of women and men and the necessity for both. With a man, however tender he is, one is feeding him - one is always and eternally understanding, mothering, supplying him with faith in himself (not in you).
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For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?
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It looks as if I were meant to be alone, and that any hope of happiness is not meant. Am I too old to acquire the knack for happiness?
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In the country of pain we are each alone.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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About loving, I have little to learn from the young.
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In the garden the door is always open into the holy - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.
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“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause then she answered, “By thinking.”
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Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family.
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I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
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