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"I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness."
"making order out of disorder any time, anywhere, can be regarded as a sacrament."
"I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable."
"gardening is a madness, a folly that does not go away with age. Quite the contrary."
"I suppose I envy painters because they can meditate on form and structure, on color and light, and not concern themselves with human torment and chaos. It is restful even to imagine expression without words."
"You can't plan for a seizure of feeling, and for this reason I put everything else aside when I'm inspired."
"They are commiting murder who merely live."
"At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness."
"We only keep what we lose."
"A good marriage shuts out a very great deal."
"For art is order, but it is born out of the chaos of life."
"Am I too old, perhaps, ever to take in another's life to share with mine on a permanent basis? If so, I must make do with what I have... and what I have is a great richness of friends and a positively ardent love of nature. Not nothing!"
"Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing."
"For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was."
"Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe."
"O cruel cloudless space, And pale bare ground where the poor infant lies! Why do we feel restored As in a sacramental place? Here Mystery is artifice, And here a vision of such peace is stored, Healing flows from it through our eyes."
"There was such a thing as women's work and it consisted chiefly, Hilary sometimes thought, in being able to stand constant interruption and keep your temper. . . ."
"The only way through pain…is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth."
"You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love."
"when I am working I immediately feel hopeful."