There is only one real deprivation, I decided this morning, and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
– May Sarton
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
– May Sarton
The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.
– May Sarton
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
– May Sarton
It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!
– May Sarton
In the country of pain we are each alone.
– May Sarton
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.
– 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.