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Heart Quotes by Mary Oliver
- And I say to my heart: rave on.
- Wild sings the bird of the heart in the forests of our lives.
- Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with…
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed…
- It is better for the heart to break, than not to break.
- I tell you this to break your heart, by which I mean only that it break open and never close again to the rest of…
- I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness…
- Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to…
- Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.
- from the complications of loving you i think there is no end or return. no answer, no coming out of it. which is the only…
- Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my…
- The poet dreams of the classroom I dreamed I stood up in class And I said aloud: Teacher, Why is algebra important? Sit down, he…
- All night my heart makes its way however it can over the rough ground of uncertainties, but only until night meets and then is overwhelmed…
- Every morning I walk like this around the pond, thinking: if the doors of my heart ever close, I am as good as dead.
- I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read…
- We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed…
More Heart Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin