15 Quotes by Sara Maitland

Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call “meditation” or, in Christian terms, “contemplative prayer”. It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

You are one of those courageous people who want to dare to live; and to do so believe you have to explore the depths of yourself, undistracted and unprotected by social conventions and norms.

You can have a failed quest, but you can’t have an achieved quest and no reward.

Our children are not happy. I believe this is because over the last half century we have increasingly monitored, supervised and attended to them, and pampered their supposedly frail egos.