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Category: 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.

Patience, Gardening, Help

Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.

People, Hear, Talk

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Words, Dangerous, Become

There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.

Real, Gifts, Give

Excellence costs a great deal.

worthy, victories

For inside all the weakness of old age the spirit God knows is as mercurial as it ever was.

self-confidence

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

self, acceptance

What is destructive is impatience haste expecting too much too fast.

realistic, expectations

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always she had to admit interesting.

Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth as without light nothing flowers.

Why is it that people who cannot show feeling presume that that is a strength and not a weakness?

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.