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 SartonRead
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep.... Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of letting go of burdens and embracing change for renewal and healing.
May Sarton’s quote encourages individuals to adopt a perspective similar to that of trees, which effortlessly shed their leaves to welcome the cyclical nature of life. It highlights the necessity of allowing oneself to release pain and losses to foster personal growth and renewal, reminding us that nothing remains static, including our struggles. By advocating patience and acceptance, it invites reflection on the transformative power of release.
Themes
Letting GoRenewalChangePainGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a self-help workshop focused on emotional healing.
More from May Sarton
All quotes →Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.
May SartonRead
She became for me an island of light, fun, wisdom where I could run with my discoveries and torments and hopes at any time of day and find welcome.
May SartonRead
Wrinkles here and there seem unimportant compared to the Gestalt of the whole person I have become in this past year.
May SartonRead
Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived at a stage in life so rich in new perceptions that cannot be transmitted to those at another stage - one feels at the same time full of so much gentleness and so much despair - the enigma of this life grows, grows, drowns one and crushes one, then all of a sudden in a supreme moment of light one becomes aware of the sacred.
May SartonRead
I would like to believe when I die that I have given myself away like a tree that sows seed every spring and never counts the loss, because it is not loss, it is adding to future life. It is the tree's way of being. Strongly rooted perhaps, but spilling out its treasure on the wind.
May SartonRead
Similar quotes
No obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead
The mind of one who practises doesn't run away anywhere, it stays right there. Good, evil, happiness and unhappiness, right and wrong arise, and he knows them all. The meditator simply knows them, they don't enter his mind. That is, he has no clinging. He is simply the experiencer.
Ajahn ChahRead
Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
Arthur Conan DoyleRead
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
EpictetusRead
On this path let the heart be your guide.
RumiRead
Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.
Gloria SteinemRead