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May Sarton Quotes about Giving

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What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the

What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.

Men, America, Giving

Public education was not founded to give society what it wants. Quite the opposite.

Opposites, Giving, Want

I love giving flowers. It is so deliciously unlasting and romantic.

Flower, Giving, Romance

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself.

Garden, Giving, Essentials

May Sarton (2014). “Plant Dreaming Deep: A Journal”, p.66, Open Road Media

letters are so much easier than living. One can give one's best.

Giving, Letters, Easier

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Love, Real, Giving

May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

Holiday, Giving, Environmental

May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.105, Open Road Media

The gift turned inward, unable to be given, becomes a heavy burden, even sometimes a kind of poison. It is as though the flow of life were backed up.

Giving, Poison, Inward

May Sarton (2017). “The Journals of May Sarton Volume One: Journal of a Solitude, Plant Dreaming Deep, and Recovering”, p.140, Open Road Media

Being very rich as far as I am concerned is having a margin. The margin is being able to give.

Giving, Able, Wealth

May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.28, Open Road Media

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