May Sarton

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

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.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

In the country of pain we are each alone.