Quote by May Sarton
Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that

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

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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. – May Sarton

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Privacy
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself. – May Sarton

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Gardens
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We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest. – Voltaire

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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit. – D. Elton Trueblood

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To dwell is to garden. – Martin Heidegger

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. – George Eliot

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