Showing posts with label May Sarton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label May Sarton. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Self

RIC_9751_edited-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_9751_edited-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



Loneliness is the poverty of self.
Solitude is richness of self.

May Sarton

Friday, January 20, 2012

What do you want of your life?

RCC_6610 by rchoephoto
RCC_6610, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.


I asked myself the question, "What do
you want of your life?" and I realized
with a start of recognition and terror,
"Exactly what  I have – but to be
commensurate, to handle it all better. 

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

Thursday, December 29, 2011

What lies within us

RIC_9611-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_9611-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



   The more articulate one is, the more
     dangerous words become.

    May Sarton

Friday, December 23, 2011

Dare to be oneself

RIC_9757-1 by rchoephoto
RIC_9757-1, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



We have to dare to be be ourselves,
however frightening or strange
that self may prove to be.

May Sarton

Monday, May 16, 2011

Gardeners of the Spirit

DSC_4931 by rchoephoto
DSC_4931, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.



Help us to be the always hopeful gardeners of the spirit,
Who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth
As without light nothing flowers.

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude



Monday, April 26, 2010

Time Alone


RCC_0720
Originally uploaded by rchoephoto

Begin here.
It is raining. … I am here alone … to take up my “real” life again at last.
That is what is strange – that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened.

May Sarton, Journal of A Solitude