Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
May SartonDeep down there was understanding, not of the facts of our lives so much as of our essential natures.
May SartonI believe that children long for form just as grownups do, and that it releases rather than cramps creative energy.
May SartonOne of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.
May SartonGardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience, acute awareness of a world outside oneself, and the power to keep on growing through all the times of drought, through the cold snows, towards those moments of pure joy when all failures are forgotten and the plum tree flowers.
May Sarton