May Sarton Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power. The Fur Person

2. At least poppy never boared you. Half the marriages i know are temple to boredom

3. For if one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. Journal of a Solitude

4. The big question, I jotted down during the long wait at the long wait at the airport, is how to hope and what to hope for. We are citizens of corrupt country, of a corrupt vision. There is such a sense of death and of being buried under the weight of technocracy. How to keep cool and get hold of the essential... and, above all, how to recognize the essential. Journal of a Solitude

5. The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power. The Fur Person

6. We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

7. Where joy in an old pencil is not absurd. Selected Poems

8. Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill.