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Things Quotes by Mary Oliver
- I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with…
- Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told…
- I don't know lots of things but I know this: next year when spring flows over the starting point I'll think I'm going to drown…
- It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that…
- Things take the time they take. Don't worry.
- Things take the time they take. don't worry. How many roads did St. Augustine follow before he became St. Augustine?
- 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…
- I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
- 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…
- I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not…
- The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to…
- And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
- 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…
- There are things you can’t reach. But You can reach out to them, and all day long. The wind, the bird flying away. The idea…
- I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in…
- For some things there are no wrong seasons. Which is what I dream of for me.
- 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…
- You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle