Alive Quote by Mary Oliver

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

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Belief isn't always easy. But this much I have learned--- if not enough else--- to live with my eyes open.

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In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the…

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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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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

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I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.

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I can't say that there are 'things' that make me come alive. There are thoughts that make me come alive.

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We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive.

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If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

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I think adoption becomes complicated whenever the biological parents are alive.

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The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

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I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly…

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If Melanchthon were alive today, he might not weep because of controversies that surround the Lord's Supper, but he might well sorrow because of…

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