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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

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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The tragic thing about learning from experience is I fear that one can only learn from one's own experience. Other people's - other nations' - experiences simply do not help. They can be imaginatively learned from. But people do not act on other people's experiences.
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When I am alone the flowers are really seen I can pay attention to them. They are felt as presences. Without them I would die...they change before my eyes. They live and die in a few days they keep me closely in touch with the process, with growth, and also with dying. I am floated on their moments.
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It is, I assume, quite easy to wither into old age, and hard to grow into it.
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Gardening is an instrument of grace.
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Where music thundered let the mind be still, Where the will triumphed let there be no will, What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.
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Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
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I believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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I suppose one has to remember that 'life' is important too, though it's something I forget in some moods, everything except work seeming like an interruption or really non-life.
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The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.
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One does not find oneself by pursuing one's self, but on the contrary by pursuing something else and learning through discipline or routine. . . who one is and wants to be.
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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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What is destructive is impatience, haste, expecting too much too fast.
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People who cannot feel punish those who do.
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I asked myself the question, 'What do you want of your life?' and I realized with a start of recognition and terror, 'Exactly what I have - but to be commensurate, to handle it all better.
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So this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
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True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root.
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If art is not to be life-enhancing, what is it to be? Half the world is feminine - why is there resentment at a female-oriented art? Nobody asks The Tale of Genji to be masculine! Women certainly learn a lot from books oriented toward a masculine world. Why is not the reverse also true? Or are men really so afraid of women's creativity?
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There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
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