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Light Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Can one be passionate about the just, the ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit no labor in its cause? I don't think…
- The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something…
- Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces…
- But I also say this: that light is an invitation to happiness, and that happiness, when it's done right, is a kind of holiness, palpable…
- Every day I see or hear something that more or less kills me with delight, that leaves me like a needle in the haystack of…
- maybe death isn't darkness, after all, but so much light wrapping itself around us--
- I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and…
- I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept…
- On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how…
- How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there in…
- 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…
More Light Quotes
- There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood
- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in… — Irving Babbitt
- You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in… — Richard Bach
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- The government has no business telling an individual what kind of light bulb to buy. — Michele Bachmann
- Well, what did we buy? Instead of a leaner, smarter government, we bought a bureaucracy that now tells us which light bulbs… — Michele Bachmann