#on

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be. ↗

— May Sarton

#first #last #persons #second #should

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. ↗

— May Sarton

#creation #day #discipline #each #foolishness

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! ↗

— May Sarton

#capacity #compared #every #few #forget

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

#agree #ambiguous #best #clear #crystal

The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. ↗

— May Sarton

#constant #disasters #few #garden #growth

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#been #done #you

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#guy #only #rock #rowing #time

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#choose #circumstances #class #creating #every

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#away #else #enjoy #fact #generosity

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#eternal #illusion #life #lose #meaning