To plant a garden is the chief of the arts of peace. Mary Stewart More Quotes by Mary Stewart More Quotes From Mary Stewart The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. Mary Stewart forget way thinking To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again Mary Stewart air sleep years The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage. Mary Stewart ifs path Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will. Mary Stewart light hope fall I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark Mary Stewart pain dark sleep The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try Mary Stewart useless essence trying The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings. Mary Stewart truth-is feelings facts You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects. Mary Stewart poverty dollars half I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back. Mary Stewart mistake children thinking Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees. Mary Stewart grows easy tree I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand. Mary Stewart knows world the difficult art I was attempting had, indeed a powerful fascination, before which the past faded, the future receded, and the whole of experience narrowed down to this stretch of glancing, glimmering water, and the fly I was trying to cast across it. Mary Stewart powerful past art It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all. Mary Stewart mind-your-own-business watches people Where two Greeks are gathered together, there will be at least three political parties represented, and possibly more. Mary Stewart political party two It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes. Mary Stewart knowing wise knowledge Folks will say anything, and next time round they'll believe it. Mary Stewart gossip say-anything believe I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands. Mary Stewart lovely stupid hands The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory. Mary Stewart smell hair memories Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you. Mary Stewart circles loneliness littles But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it. Mary Stewart ambitious power men
