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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. - Mary Oliv

To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work. – Mary Oliver

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What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places? – Mary Oliver

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Breathing
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Mary Oliver
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I very much wished not to be noticed, and to be left alone, and I sort of succeeded. – Mary Oliver

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alone
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Mary Oliver
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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 where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up. – Mary Oliver

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Happiness
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Mary Oliver
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Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. – Max Lerner, Actions and Passions, 1949

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Wise Words

For visions come not to polluted eyes. – Mary Howitt

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Wise Words

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. – Thomas à Kempis, Imitation of Christ, c.1420

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Wise Words

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