Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
May SartonSo this was fame at last! Nothing but a vast debt to be paid to the world in energy, blood, and time.
May SartonNo partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.
May Sarton