 Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness. |
| Self-respect is nothing to hide behind. When you need it most it isn't there. |
| Most people have to talk so they won't hear. |
| One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. |
| The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become. |
| A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. |
| We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. |
| True feeling justifies whatever it may cost. |
| In the country of pain we are each alone. |
| The minute one utters a certainty, the opposite comes to mind. |
| 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. |
| Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. |
| Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. |
| Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old! |
| In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place. |
| There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most. |
| No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. |
| The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. |
| It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it! |
| 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. |
