It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
May Sarton
There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.
May Sarton
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.
May Sarton
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.