My home is not a place, it is people.

About May Sarton

Eleanore Marie Sarton (May 3, 1912 – July 16, 1995), known by the pen name May Sarton, was a Belgian and American novelist, poet, and memoirist. Notably, Sarton came out as a lesbian in her writing in 1965, a time when it was highly unusual to do so.

More quotations from May Sarton

There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Joy, happiness… we do not question. They are beyond question, maybe. A matter of being. But pain forces us to think, and to make connections,… to discover what has been happening to cause it. And, curiously enough, pain draws us to other human beings in a significant way, whereas joy or happiness, to some extent, isolates.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

humanity heroism decency behavior

The hardest thing we are asked to do in this world is to remain aware of suffering, suffering about which we can do nothing.

suffering awarenss

Love opens the doors into everything… including, and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

More quotations tagged with “home”

A good home must be made, not bought.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

—Joyce Maynard

Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.

—John Howard Payne

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the walls of our own homes.

—Herman Melville

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

—Harold B. Lee

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