May Sarton Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• 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

  Love, Relationship, Giving Up

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.96, Open Road Media

• Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

  May Sarton

  Opposites, Giving, Want

• Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

  May Sarton

  Garden, Giving, Essentials

  May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

• What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

  May Sarton

  Men, America, Giving

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

  May Sarton

  Love, Real, Giving

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

• In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Optimistic, Past

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

  May Sarton

  Holiday, Giving, Environmental

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.105, Open Road Media

• The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Poison, Inward

  May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

• I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Giving, Romance

• Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Able, Wealth

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.28, Open Road Media

• letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Letters, Easier

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