Mary Oliver Quotes About Life
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And I say to my heart: rave on.
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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
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Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.
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Life is much the same when it's going well-- resonant and unremarkable. But who, not under disaster's seal, can understand what life is like when it begins to crumble?
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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 your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
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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 my arms. When it is over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.
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Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?
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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 something by being nothing
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Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?
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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
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