Happiness Quotes by Mary Oliver

15 Happiness quotes by Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver’s poetic eye finds happiness in the hush of leaves and the rhythm of the tide, reminding us that wonder often lives in the ordinary.

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“Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude? Have I endured loneliness with grace?”

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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness.

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And it can keep you as busy as anything else, and happier.

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In my own work, I usually revise through forty or fifty drafts of a poem before I begin to feel content with…

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“so long as you don’t mind a little dying, how could there be a day in your whole life that doesn’t have…

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Sunrise What is the name of the deep breath I would take over and over for all of us? Call it whatever…

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But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind…

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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly…

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And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving…

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Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the…

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“If I had another life I would want to spend it all on some unstinting happiness. I would be a fox, or…

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We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly…

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“The Pond" August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the…

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“Percy wakes me (fourteen) Percy wakes me and I am not ready. He has slept all night under the covers. Now he’s…

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“Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me" Last night the rain spoke to me slowly, saying, what joy to come falling out…

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Poetry is one of the original arts, and it began, as did all the fine arts, within the original wilderness of the earth.

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The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn…

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

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“All important ideas must include the trees, the mountains, and the rivers. • To understand many things you must reach out of your own condition.”

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“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude, a few…

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“First Snow The snow began here this morning and all day continued, its white rhetoric everywhere calling us back to why, how, whence such beauty…

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“What can I say that I have not said before? So I’ll say it again. The leaf has a song in it. Stone is…

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The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

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There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow…

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“What will you do with your one precious, wild life?”

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“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something…

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“I stood like Adam in his lonely garden On that first morning, shaken out of sleep, Rubbing his eyes, listening, parting the leaves, Like…

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