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Life Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we…
- And I say to my heart: rave on.
- What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
- When the blackberries hang swollen in the woods, in the brambles nobody owns, I spend all day among the high branches, reaching my ripped arms,…
- Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as…
- I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.
- The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many…
- I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel…
- Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?
- And over one more set of hills, along the sea, the last roses have opened their factories of sweetness and are giving it back to…
- Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath? Do you…
- I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
- The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something…
- The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
- A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.
- I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as…
- To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing…
- Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
- When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
- Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.
- Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
- Do you love this world? Do you cherish your humble and silky life? Do you adore the green grass, with its terror beneath?
- Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
- ...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,…
- When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle