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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?

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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Acquire
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Alone
Happiness
Hope
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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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Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!
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Go rich in poverty. Go rich in poetry. This nothingness is plentitude.
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we are never done with thinking about our parents, I suppose, and come to know them better long after they are dead than we ever did when they were alive.
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How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time.
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O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes.
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letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.
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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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We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.
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Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius.
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Mountains define you. You cannot define / Them.
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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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There were moments ... when it seemed that all one could be asked was just to keep the ashtrays clean, the bed made, the wastebaskets emptied, as if one never got to the real things because of the constant exhausting battle to keep ordinary life from falling apart.
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Lunches are just not good. They take the heart out of the day and the spaciousness from the morning's work.
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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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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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The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.
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It is always hard to hear the buried truth from another person.
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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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