“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.”
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
“One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.”
“Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.”
“Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn’t there.”
“A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless.”
“The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters.”
“No partner in a love relationship… should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.”
“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.”
“Most people have to talk so they won’t hear.”
“It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!”
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
“The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind.”
“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.”
“True feeling justifies whatever it may cost.”
“In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.”
“Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.”
“There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.”
“In the country of pain we are each alone.”
“Don’t forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!”
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