May Sarton Quotes About Growth

Quotes about: Growth

• We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

  May Sarton

  Fighting, Understanding, Growth

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.104, Open Road Media

• In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.

  May Sarton

  Death, Flower, Creativity

  May Sarton, Edith Royce Schade (1994). “From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton”, Papier Mache Pr

• The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.

  May Sarton

  Nature, Mean, Loss

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.111, Open Road Media

• 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.

  May Sarton

  Pain, Mean, Doors

  May Sarton (2014). “Recovering: A Journal”, p.7, Open Road Media

• For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?

  May Sarton

  Loss, Self, Atmosphere

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.53, Open Road Media

• 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.

  May Sarton

  Flower, Eye, Growth

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